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.
State Sen. Dianna Duran made history Tuesday, becoming the first Republican to in 80 years to win election as the New Mexico Secretary of State. Unofficial results showed Duran winning nearly 59 percent of the vote to defeat first-term incumbent Mary Herrera, who collected just over 41 percent.
In an interview with Heath Haussamen, New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera said she thinks her former elections director, A.J. Salazar invented a break-in at his office in order to help Herrera’s Republican opponent, Dianna Duran, win…
Secretary of State Mary Herrera never ordered her staff to gather petition signatures during office hours, State Elections Director Don Francisco Trujillo told KOB TV’s Gadi Schwartz in a long interview that touched all the controversies and scandals that have…
“It just shows that they are going out of their way to hide something,” Santa Fe County Clerk Valerie Espinoza said in an interview with KOB-TV, referring to the extensive, and perhaps overzealous, redactions in e-mails released by the…
Former elections chief A.J. Salazar raised concerns about the lack of a contract for the storage of voting machines at the private facility during a March 12 interview with The Independent. But chain-of-custody paperwork and regular inventories are kept for those machines and shared with the Secretary of State’s office—and it is unclear how their integrity could be compromised, AES President Terry A. Rainey told The Independent this week.
KUNM’s Jim Williams sends along this update on the Secretary of State’s office:
Secretary of State Mary Herrera is firing back over allegations that her office is poorly managed. As KUNM reported last week, several former Elections division employees have…
