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.
Theresa Becenti-Aguilar is scheduled to be sworn in Tuesday morning as New Mexico’s newest Public Regulation Commission (PRC) commissioner.
Becenti-Aguilar will replace outgoing commissioner Carol Sloan as the district 4 representative of northern and northwestern New Mexico on…
Governor Bill Richardson appointed Theresa Becenti-Aguilar Friday to the Public Regulation Commission (PRC) to replace outgoing commissioner Carol Sloan.
Becenti-Aguilar won the democratic nomination June 1 to replace Sloan. She will run against Republican Gary Montoya…
Carol Sloan is to be removed immediately from the Public Regulation Commission after the New Mexico Supreme Court granted an appeal from the state attorney general, KOB-TV reports.
In April, Sloan was found guilty of two felonies—aggravated battery and…
PNM filed a request last week for approval of another 21.2 percent hike that would take effect in April 2011. But two PRC commissioners said Tuesday they would not be open to accepting a rate hike settlement before next year. The Commission’s go-slow approach with PNM contrasts with the Insurance Division’s rushed weekend deal with Blue Cross Blue Shield—before public hearings on that company’s request.
State land commissioner Patrick Lyons “really pounded (Robert) Corn” in the Republican primaries for Public Regulation Commission (PRC) District 2, PRC Chairman David King said Tuesday.
“Unless he does something, it’s his to lose,” King, District 2′s…
The hotly contested Democratic primary for Public Regulation Commission (PRC) District 4 Commissioner Carol Sloan’s seat was won convincingly by the only woman and Native American in the race, Theresa Becenti-Aguilar.
With 35.8 percent of the Democratic primary vote,…
Candidates for three hotly contested seats on New Mexico’s powerful and troubled five-member Public Regulation Commission (PRC) will be selected in today’s primaries.
The PRC regulates the state’s electrical, natural gas, and water utilities, insurance industry, and administers…
Attorney General Gary King petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court to remove Carol Sloan from the state Public Regulation Commission (PRC), just hours after Sloan was sentenced to supervised probation and a suspended sentence of five years.
Criminal charges against one Public Regulation Commission (PRC) commissioner, the conviction earlier this month of another on two felony charges, a costly sexual harassment lawsuit, the hiring of a convicted embezzler, and repeated violations of the Open Meetings Act…
After being convicted of felony counts of battery and burglary, Carol Sloan reportedly will try to remain as a commissioner on the Public Regulations Commission.
A State District Court today found PRC commissioner Carol Sloan guilty of two felonies—aggravated battery and aggravated burglary. The Associated Press reports that Sloan will appeal the conviction. Meanwhile, state Democrats and Republicans are calling on Sloan, a Democrat, to…
The Executive Director of New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness, Hank Hughes, has announced he is running for the Public Regulation Commission in the 4th district.
“This race is about the integrity of the Public Regulation Commission and about creating…
“We clearly haven’t been electing our best and brightest to the (Public Regulation Commission), but that’s true elsewhere in state government, as well,” the Albuquerque Journal’s Thomas J. Cole writes in an article published today. “Need I recite the…
