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 former state investment officer on Tuesday named David Contarino as the state government official who exerted pressure to award contracts and make investments that would reward political campaign contributors of Gov. Bill Richardson.
The GRIPgate grand jury has subpoenaed communications between two of Richardson’s top advisers and a representative of JPMorgan Chase in its effort to find out if Richardson’s office influenced the New Mexico Finance Authority’s decision to hire CDR Financial…
Gov. Bill Richardson’s former chief of staff, David Contarino, is a subject of the federal investigation into whether Richardson pressured the New Mexico Finance Authority to give a lucrative contract to a California firm that contributed significantly to Richardson PACs,…
Federal prosecutors are asking whether David Contarino, a man Bill Richardson once described as the “strategic mind” of his administration and “my most senior and trusted aide,” was involved in the alleged pay-to-play scheme that derailed the governor’s nomination to be commerce secretary days ago, Bloomberg.com is reporting.
