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 weeks ago New Mexico Human Services Secretary Pam Hyde delivered a sobering 27-page Power Point presentation to state lawmakers about a huge shortfall facing the state’s Medicaid program.
The director of New Mexico’s Legislative Finance Committee, David Abbey, has won a national award for his work on budgetary issues.
Abbey was named the 2009 winner of the Legislative Staff Achievement Award by the National Association of Legislative…
A potential showdown is emerging between state lawmakers and Gov. Bill Richardson over where to look for cost savings. State lawmakers, grappling with a projected half-a-billion-dollar budget shortfall, were told Tuesday they could limit the pain by retrieving nearly $200 million in unspent money on unfinished brick-and-mortar projects around the state.
