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.
Republican Attorney General candidate Matt Chandler raised nearly $115,000 according to campaign finance reports. His biggest donor was the state Republican Party, which gave $25,000 toward his bid.
Chandler finished the reporting period, which ran from June 25 to September…
Attorney General Gary King raised nearly $275,000 over the last three months, according to a campaign finance report filed Monday. The biggest donation to King’s campaign came from the Democratic Attorney General’s Association, which pitched in $100,000.
King closed the…
Democratic incumbent Gary King leads his Republican challenger Matt Chandler by a wide margin more than two months before November’s election, according to Albuquerque Journal Poll results released today.
Nearly half of the voters — 48 percent…
Former state elections director A.J. Salazar tells Heath Haussamen over at NMpolitics.net today that he doesn’t share his attorney’s sentiment that New Mexico Attorney General Gary King is playing election-year politics.
On Thursday, Salazar’s attorney, Rudy Martin of…
The Independent’s Trip Jennings spoke with KUNM’s Sarah Gustavus Thursday about New Mexico’s two candidates for attorney general and their differing stances on giving driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Jennings also talked about the governor’s race and both Susana Martinez…
A contentious all-day hearing Wednesday left many Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico customers saying they see little hope for relief from a controversial 21.3 percent increase in their health insurance premiums. Even though the company’s cash reserves have now reached $7.2 billion, an expert witness for the Attorney General’s office’s, who reiterated earlier testimony that Blue Cross had not sufficiently documented its claimed cost figures, and whose analysis found the insurer’s rate filing had exaggerated company losses, said the 21 percent increase was “reasonable, given the circumstances.”
New Mexico should create two types of drivers’ licenses – one for American citizens and another for non-citizens, Attorney General Gary King said Wednesday. King’s Republican opponent, Matt Chandler, the district attorney in the 9th Judicial District, says the law creates a breeding ground for crime and he’d work to repeal it if elected.
If he were a state lawmaker, New Mexico Attorney General Gary King said Wednesday, he would not vote for legislation that would give state driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
“Under the current situation, where we are concerned about illegal immigrants,…
Along with e-mails supposedly from wealthy but financially inept Nigerian royalty, a leading form of financial scam targeting New Mexican consumers involves mailed counterfeit checks that arrive with instructions to cash the checks and wire proceeds to an out-of-state corporation…
A class-action suit against WellCare Health Plans has been settled for $200 million, Attorney General Gary King’s office announced Monday. The State Investment Council (SIC) and Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico (PERA) were plaintiffs…
Under Martinez’s plan, public officials convicted of corruption would lose their pensions and a new State Police unit would crack down on crooked New Mexico politician. Martinez also said she’d push to ban for life state contractors and lobbyists convicted of violating the public trust, make it a crime for an elected official who knows of but does not report corruption and require the archiving of legislative meetings that are webcast.
New Mexico has become the 13th state to side with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s new rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries, cement facilities and coal power plants, Attorney General Gary King announced Thursday.…
The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) will be in Santa Fe from July 18-21 for its annual meeting, according to a press release from New Mexico Attorney General Gary King. The annual meeting will take place at the…
A federal appeals court ruled today that the state can’t require two nonprofits to register as “political committees,” upholding the ruling of a federal judge last year, according to a news release issued by the nonprofit organizations Wednesday.
The appellate…
The U.S. government responded late Wednesday to legal challenges to the federal health care law brought by several states’ Attorneys General in a Florida state court, the Wall Street Journal tells us.
While filed in Florida, the government’s response…
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King has written a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision in favor of Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps is a Kansas preacher who has made…
The U.S. must do more to help fund law enforcement efforts on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, New Mexico Attorney General Gary King told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee‘s subcommittee on human rights this morning.
King urged…
Tea Party leaders met with state Attorney General Gary King today to try to convince him to file a lawsuit against the federal government to repeal health care reform legislation that passed Congress and was signed by President Barack Obama…
A Doña Ana County long-term care company and three individuals have been indicted on 26 felony Medicaid fraud charges, Attorney General Gary King’s Medicaid Fraud and Elder Abuse Division (MFEAD) announced Wednesday.
New Mexico’s Tea Parties are planning to present Attorney General Gary King with a petition to join other states’ lawsuits against the federal government to reverse health care reform. But the tide seems to be turning against support for such a move, if letters to the AG website are any indication. After an initial flood of often vitriolic comments demanding New Mexico sue the federal government to halt health reform, mid-April brought a majority of letters opposed to such a suit, The Independent has found.
