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.
A group tasked with brainstorming how to restructure New Mexico state government could recommend removing the Division of Insurance out from under the Public Regulation Commission (PRC), a move touted as a way to increase efficiency. But the potential change has left some wondering if the idea is political fallout from the agency’s recent decision to approve a health insurer’s request for a rate increase, an outcome that led to a tempest of protests, the resignation of the then-Insurance Superintendent and the insurance division reconsidering the request, a move that has been challenged in court by the insurer.
Jerome Block Jr. said he’s not going anywhere, but if in the next few weeks he changes his mind, Gov. Bill Richardson would have the authority to fill the vacancy on the Public Regulation Commission.
