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.
A federal appeals court ruled today that the state can’t require two nonprofits to register as “political committees,” upholding the ruling of a federal judge last year, according to a news release issued by the nonprofit organizations Wednesday.
The appellate…
Attorney General Gary King’s office can’t say how much taxpayer money has been spent on litigation with two nonprofits even as King appeals a judge’s ruling against his attempt to force the nonprofits to register as political action committees.
Representatives of two nonprofits on the winning end of a federal judge’s ruling three weeks ago reacted Monday to news that New Mexico Attorney General Gary King plans to appeal the decision.
A federal court on Monday ruled that the state of New Mexico had violated two nonprofits’ rights to free speech last year by attempting to force them to disclose the origin of the money that had paid for mailers that were critical of state lawmakers.
The debate over the political and policy work of nonprofits is taking a new turn with the formation of a nonprofit that aims to stop progressives from “building a permanent ultra-liberal majority in New Mexico.”
A panel tasked with recommending changes to Albuquerque’s city charter sent councilors a message Thursday night: If you want to change how the city regulates election-year activity, do it yourself. That decision came after nearly two hours of debate before the normally sleepy Albuquerque Charter Review Task Force.
Is Albuquerque taking up the fight to restrict the activities of nonprofits during an election year?
A member of the city’s Charter Review Task Force suggested Thursday amending the city’s charter with a proposal that bears a striking resemblance…
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.
The Senate voted 29 to 10 Thursday afternoon to pass legislation that would allow a political candidate or a citizen to ask a state court judge to stop alleged political activity during an election until the group responsible discloses who is bankrolling the effort.
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…
Motion on a number of ethics reform proposals has finally begun in the Senate, and that has reform supporters saying there is reason for optimism despite the committee’s late start on the issue.
The so-called ‘sour grapes’ lawsuit by three Democrats defeated in the primary officially is done, with the deadline for appeal having passed.
Former state Sens. James Taylor and Shannon Robinson and state Rep. Dan Silva all lost in the Democratic…
Rebecca Vigil-Giron is under investigation by New Mexico’s attorney general for her role in the use of federal voter education funds while she was secretary of state, reported Thomas Cole of the Albuquerque Journal over the weekend.
Using funds provided…
Tuesday’s lawsuit filed by SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) and the Center for Civic Policy’s New Mexico Youth Organized (NMYO) is their attempt to stop what the lawsuit calls the “chilling effect” the state agencies’ action has had on their right to free speech.
A lawsuit filed this summer by three state lawmakers alleging a conspiracy between the challengers who knocked them out in a June primary and several nonprofit organizations has been thrown out of court.
A lawsuit alleging an illegal conspiracy to defeat three incumbent lawmakers in the June primary is baseless, several people and groups named as defendants say, but one of the lawmakers says insiders who decided to “snitch” will help prove the…
