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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

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New law settles old issue of who owns NM’s voting machines

By | 03.15.10 | 3:41 pm

The longstanding battle over who owns the state’s more than 1,900 voting tabulators – the counties or the state – appears settled, and none too soon with this year’s elections fast approaching. A bill Gov. Bill Richardson signed into law

Federal agency pays NM’s big maintenance bill for voting machines

By | 03.15.10 | 2:00 pm

A federal agency is ponying up around $600,000 this year to provide upkeep for New Mexico’s more than 1,900 voting tabulators and voting machines.

New Mexico won a federal grant from the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission to pay the…

Attention turns to subcontractor in Vigil-Giron corruption case

By | 08.27.09 | 1:22 am

State prosecutors allege that the payments to Joe Kupfer were part of an elaborate embezzlement and fraud scheme in which Gutierrez, the Kupfers and former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron stole millions of dollars in federal taxpayer money awarded to Vigil-Giron’s office for voter education.