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.
Two Republicans and one Democrat took three open Public Regulation Commission (PRC) seats that were up for election Tuesday.
Patrick Lyons, Ben Hall and Theresa Becenti-Aguilar were all elected to the PRC, arguably the state’s most powerful regulatory agency.
Sharp divisions surfaced on renewable energy and insurance rate regulation between Public Regulation Commission (PRC) candidates at an industry-sponsored candidates’ forum Wednesday, with District 4 Republican candidate Gary Montoya defending the use of coal-burning power plants while his opponent, Democrat Theresa Becenti-Aguilar, advocated more use of solar power.
Stephanie DuBois has worked as a dog trainer, bookkeeper and waitress, and managed the Deming Chamber of Commerce for three years. Outgoing Land Commissioner Pat Lyons is a former legislator who has overseen the state Land Office for the past eight years. The two are competing for a seat on New Mexico’s most powerful regulatory agency, the Public Regulation Commission. And each has a different vision on how the agency should be run.
I sat down with Sarah Gustavus of KUNM today to talk about Bryant Furlow’s story on the District 5 Public Regulation Commission race to be decided Nov. 2. Republican Ben Hall and Democrat Bill McCamley are competing to…
Former Republican state legislator Ben Hall and former Democratic Doña Ana County commissioner Bill McCamley both want to clean up the powerful and scandal-plagued state Public Regulation Commission. The men, who are fighting over outgoing Commissioner Sandy Jones’s District 5 seat, both told The Independent they want to see increased PRC scrutiny of utility and insurance companies’ rate hikes, and increased accountability at the PRC’s semi-autonomous Division of Insurance. But the candidates differed on how they would achieve those goals.
Doña Ana County Assessor Gary Perez says he’s decided against running for the District 5 seat on the state’s Public Regulation Commission.
“I am not going to run,” Perez said in a brief interview. Asked to elaborate, he said he’s…
Las Cruces native and businessman Jamie Estrada announced Wednesday that he’s running for the District 5 seat on the Public Regulation Commission.
Doña Ana County Assessor Gary Perez says he’s considering running for a seat on the state’s Public Regulation Commission and will make a final decision this week.
“I am exploring the possibility at this time and I will make…
Former Doña Ana County Commissioner D. Kent Evans announced on Wednesday that he is running for the Public Regulation Commission seat being vacated by Sandy Jones.
Bill McCamley, a Democrat, has declared his candidacy for the Public Regulations Commission (PRC) in District 5, according to a statement sent to the media this afternoon.
Steve Pearce says he’s either going to run in 2010 for governor or attempt to reclaim the 2nd Congressional District seat he used to hold.
Outgoing Doña Ana County Commissioners Kent Evans and Bill McCamley touted improvements in the government during their tenures during their last official meeting today.
Approximately 2,487 people in Doña Ana County requested an absentee ballot to vote in last week’s election but never voted, Elections Supervisor and Clerk-elect Lynn Ellins announced today. That number could drop when his office conducts an audit of the absentee ballot process in the next two weeks, Ellins said.
Doña Ana County commissioners asked today for an investigation into what caused the absentee ballot snafu; an unknown number of people who requested ballots weren’t able to vote in Tuesday’s election.
Philip Zakahi is one of an unknown number of people who is registered to vote in Doña Ana County but won’t be able to vote because they never received the absentee ballots they requested. The county said this morning that 3,844 people who had requested absentee ballots hadn’t yet voted, and the fear is that, when the dust settles on this election, hundreds or even thousands of them may have been disenfranchised.
