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.
The governor’s office did not respond to two e-mail messages and a phone call sent Monday and Tuesday, asking why Governor Richardson’s chief of staff, Brian Condit, had not returned to the scene of a houseboat accident he caused over Labor Day weekend. The Governor’s office has also declined to make Condit available for an interview.
Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday that he and his party stayed 30 minutes at the scene of Saturday’s houseboat accident at Elephant Butte State Park.
But the eyewitness who told NMI the governor left within two or three minutes is standing firm on his version of the events. And the two parks officers who responded to last Saturday’s accident said through an agency spokesperson that they did not see the governor or his chief of staff, Brian Condit, when they arrived on the scene, 20 minutes after the crash.
It took the New Mexico Republican Party most of Thursday before it rose to the challenge of interpreting last weekend’s boat accident at Elephant Butte State Park, but what it lacked in urgency–Wonkette in Washington blogged on the story…
Did Brian Condit, Gov. Bill Richardson’s chief of staff, violate state law when he, Richardson and the governor’s entourage left the scene of a Sept. 5 boating accident at Elephant Butte Lake?
At least one state lawmaker believes the New Mexico State Legislature should strengthen a law that currently gives an operator of a boat two days to provide information to officers investigating an accident involving the craft. The law allowed Gov. Bill Richardson’s chief of staff, Brian Condit, to wait two days before he called an officer to discuss a boat accident at Elephant Butte State Park over the Labor Day weekend.
Gov. Bill Richardson, his chief of staff Brian Condit, budget secretary Katherine Miller and security officers were gone within minutes from the scene of an accident Saturday in which a houseboat was sideswiped and another was smashed into at Elephant Butte State Park, according to an eyewitness.
