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 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.
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.
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 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…
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.
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.
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…
