I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Last month’s paralyzing shutdown of the Secretary of State’s computer systems and web site has state lawmakers asking how to make New Mexico’s constitutional offices subject to the same IT rules most other state agencies comply with. But the state’s IT chief, Marlin Mackey — who has authority over how most state agencies manage information technology — doesn’t have such control over the state’s constitutional offices, Mackey said.
The New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office doesn’t have the technical capability to manage information technology projects, according to a Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) evaluation.
Nor does it have a “viable disaster recovery” plan for its “mission critical” systems,…
The New Mexico secretary of state’s Web site has been in various stages of not working right — and sometimes not working at all — for several days now.
