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.
“Vincent ‘Smiley’ Gallegos, who ran a state housing agency out of an office next to a used-car lot in Albuquerque, New Mexico, should have known better when he borrowed $27.7 million, the Internal Revenue Service said.”
So begins the…
CDR Financial Products, the company that was at the center of New Mexico’s GRIPgate scandal that recently ended without charges being filed, was indicted along with some of its employees today in a national probe into bid rigging in the municipal bond market.
Contributions from CDR Financial Products and its owner to Gov. Bill Richardson have grabbed the most headlines in recent days. But a new report (pdf) from the National Institute on Money in State Politics shows that CDR and owner…
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.
We haven’t figured out yet what to call this scandal. GRIP Slip? CDR-Gate? Rubin-water?
(Actually, we’re open to suggestions, hopefully some that don’t involve -gate or -water. Post them in the comments.)
In the meantime, Muckety.com has posted a…
The head of the company at the center of an investigation into allegations of pay-to-play in Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration proclaimed that he and his company have done nothing wrong in a letter posted today on his company’s Web site.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has convened a federal grand jury to investigate dealings between the state and a California company that was paid almost $1.5 million for work related to a contract it won around the same time it donated $100,000 to political action committees formed by Gov. Bill Richardson.
