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.
Officials from New Mexico’s largest county lobbied state lawmakers this week in the hopes of expanding the county’s taxing authority to help raise millions of dollars. Its part of the perennial struggle that pits counties against the state in funding local jails
In tough economic times, it would be easy to anticipate that any measure on the ballot to raise taxes would sink. But New Mexico must love its Rail Runner. And voters must love libraries and parks and the bike paths…
Politico has a list of 25 key counties to watch for the presidential election. And two New Mexico counties are near the top of the list. Here they are, according to Politico:
3) Bernalillo County: Home to about one-third
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The Bernalillo County Clerk’s Bureau of Elections put a lot of effort into making sure Thursday’s mock election at five Albuquerque Public Schools was realistic. Staff members conducted forums at each school where several elected officials spoke, provided the real…
New Mexico Democrats appear to be taking Barack Obama to heart. Through Monday, more than 132,000 registered Democrats had voted early or by absentee across the state, compared to 71,187 registered Republican voters, the Secretary of State’s office reported Tuesday.
In New Mexico’s most populous county, Democrats have utilized early voting more than their Republican counterparts. According to the latest numbers from the Bernalillo County Clerk, 33,752 Democrats have cast early ballots so far. This compares to 15,552 Republicans.
Overall, 57,052…
TruTouch Technologies, an Albuquerque high-tech company on the front lines of battling drunken driving, could lose a substantial contract with Bernalillo County after two of its officers apparently failed to disclose campaign contributions to Republican congressional candidate Darren White. A state ethics law may have been violated.
Brian Schmidly, son of University of New Mexico President David Schmidly, has backed out of a $94,000 job offer to be “associate director of sustainability” –a position created by his dad last June with the goal to reduce greenhouse…
A Bernalillo County economic development official who did campaign work for state lawmakers supportive of a project he helped to oversee said he will no longer work on individual political campaigns. But he is not giving up on politics totally.
One of Bernalillo County’s key financial decision-makers has been moonlighting as a political consultant, doing paid campaign work for state legislators who support a project he helped to oversee, as well as other politicians he calls his friends.
The group that ran the largest voter-registration drive in the state this year told reporters today that safeguards already in place helped to identify many of the 1,400 cards the FBI is investigating as “potentially fraudulent.”
Some South Valley residents think its time for the area to incorporate into its own municipality. And they have a recently completed study to point to bolster their case.
