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.
So how does Stephen Flance, the chairman of the New Mexico Finance Authority, know that the FBI has completed its investigation into pay-to-play allegations involving one of the state agency’s deals?
Flance told state lawmakers that the FBI had…
Top brass at the University of New Mexico seem to be bowing a little to the pressure from faculty as well as lawmakers to reign in administrative spending.
President David J. Schmidly announced…
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…
David Harris, a former Richardson adviser at the center of the GRIPgate investigation, received a $10,000 raise and $50,000 in “deferred compensation” from UNM, just months before the university announced a hiring freeze, the Albuquerque Journal reports today.
Southern New Mexico State Representative Dub Williams resigned yesterday. Williams wife has had pneumonia for the last few months and she told the Alamogordo Daily Times that although she is doing better, “There was no way we could go to Santa Fe.”
In Farmington, the City Council voted last night to allow ConocoPhillips to drill a huge gas well, and they’re going to allow the company to exceed maximum noise levels while doing so, but they said “Oh, hell no” (or something like that) when the gas company asked to be allowed to drill 24-hours a day.
In other news, well, don’t even read the New York Times today. It’s all bad. Economy, war, torture, tax returns, vanity and misery. All on the front page. Pretty much the same deal at the Washington Post, except a Post columnist says, “It’s Ugly, But the Bailout is Working.” Some intriguing logic in that story. And speaking of ugly, whatever you do, don’t read this story on Talking Points Memo about former DOJ official John Tanner. It will ruin your day.
Oh boy, you guys are going to need a unicorn chaser now, huh? Well….let’s see, some kids in Clovis found a dinosaur.
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,…
