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.
Did you know that it’s fairly common for members of Congress to give their staffers bonuses, courtesy of your tax dollars?
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King announced today that he joined a coalition of 19 state attorneys general in sending a letter to AIG CEO Edward Liddy that demands the names of those who received retention bonuses from the…
The U.S. House voted emphatically today to try to recoup the controversial retention bonuses paid by the the insurance company AIG. The vote was 328 to 93 on H.R. 1586, the Bonus Recoupment Tax Bill. The bill would tax…
The outrage over the bonuses given to the insurance company AIG has forced members of Congress to take action. U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich, D-Albuquerque, signed on to a bill, HR 1527, that is designed to recoup the money.…
Tom Udall and a group of fellow U.S. senators has sent a letter to embattled AIG CEO Edward Liddy.
Udall, in a statement, said the letter sent a message to Liddy: “Give the bonuses back, or we’ll find a way…
U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Lujan and Harry Teague, both New Mexico Democrats, signed onto a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner demanding action on the AIG bonuses that have dominated the news cycle over the past couple days.
U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján issued a press release minutes ago saying he was “extremely disappointed” in the $165 million in bonuses that American Insurance Group (AIG) is giving to employees. The bonuses come after the insurance company was…
American Insurance Group (AIG) has not gotten a lot of good press or goodwill from Washington, D.C., these past couple of days.
AIG received billions of dollars in a bailout money late last year. Now, they are giving away hundreds…
Ciudad Juárez is getting 3,000 more army troops, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports, in an attempt to prevent drug cartels from completely taking over that city, if not Mexico itself.
Within two weeks, 8,000 anti-drug cartel combatants —…
With all the news about financial meltdown and government bailouts of companies, I thought it might be interesting to know how much money members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation had taken from some of the companies at the center…
