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 Rep. Paul Bandy’s bill to restrict what New Mexico nonprofits can do during an election year has run into an immovable object: the House Judiciary Committee. In fact, the committee’s unwillingness to pass the legislation with days to go in the 2009 session means the bill’s chances for passage are between unlikely and nigh impossible.
This just in from KUNM FM 89.9: “This week on the KUNM call-in show Arcie Chapa continues our look at the 2009 Legislative Session with coverage of a bill that seeks to define what nonprofits can and can’t do…
The reforms include consolidating the seven regional housing authorities into three, designating an agency to oversee regional operations, strengthening conflict-of-interest language, permanently eliminating the authorities’ ability to issue bonds, and requiring that transactions of over $100,000 be reviewed and approved by the mortgage finance authority.
I was looking at a posting the other day that talked about ethics and the need for ethics reform in New Mexico. The article talked about former State Sen. Manny Aragon and the recently defeated Senate Republican Whip Lee Rawson. What I was shocked to see missing was any real discussion about the New Mexico Housing Authority and the people who are involved with it.
