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.
Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday refused to answer whether he had met to discuss an investment with the son of a friend prior to the state’s decision to sink $90 million into the deal. An attorney for Marc Correra, the son of the governor’s friend and the individual marketing the investment in question, also declined to say whether the two men had met prior to the state’s investment.
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed documents related to the state’s pending shift from a contract with one behavioral health services company to another, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.
The state’s Human Services Department has until…
Today the local blogosphere is obsessed with two things: Swine flu and how to write about the investigation into Gov. Bill Richardson’s pay-to-play allegations.
The media has already reported on one connection between New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the scandal-plagued former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich: Richardson’s re-election campaign gave $20,000 to the campaign of Blagojevich in 2006.
Gov. Bill Richardson signed a bill today that will require additional disclosure from investment firms seeking to do business with the state.
Developers who want to convert Albuquerque’s dreary Winrock Mall into a showcase of New Urbanism, where people live, shop and work, got a big boost Wednesday.
Gov. Bill Richardson signed into law a bill authorizing $137 million in public bonds…
The newest SurveyUSA poll has Gov. Bill Richardson’s approval rating at 42 percent.
A bill that would require additional disclosure from investment firms seeking to do business with the state passed the Legislature and is awaiting action from the governor.
The Senate voted on Thursday 40-1 to pass legislation that caps the amount of money contributors could give to political candidates and elected officials.
Santa Fe author Sally Denton wrote a story on the news Web site The Daily Beast saying that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was “double-crossed” by Barack Obama, though there is little evidence of said “double-crossing” in the article.…
Frank Foy’s lawsuit alleging a pay-to-play scheme is an attempt to benefit from the “near collapse” of global financial markets and the resulting “devastation” to some of New Mexico’s investments, says one of the suit’s primary…
A bill that would require additional disclosure from investment firms seeking to do business with the state has cleared the House and is awaiting a hearing in a Senate committee.
CDR, the firm at the heart of New Mexico’s GRIPgate pay-to-play scandal, is also at the center of a nationwide investigation into whether the firm, along with banks, overcharged local governments for its services.
Pauline Turner, who Frank Foy’s attorneys describe as ‘a key witness’ in Foy’s pay-to-play case against the state, says the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board made hasty and risky investment decisions that weren’t understood by some board members. Malott is the embattled ERB chairman.
Open government and press advocates say a public records bill larded up with exemptions from state agencies would define public records “out of existence,” according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.
And a no-confidence vote against top officials…
In the wake of of a potential pay-to-play scandal and economic unrest, Gov. Bill Richardson is less popular in New Mexico than ever before, according to a recent poll.
The governor’s office says an ongoing federal probe into allegations of pay to pay isn’t the reason Bill Richardson skipped a weekend meeting of the National Governors Association.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has named a special envoy to North Korea, and it isn’t Gov. Bill Richardson.
True, there’s outstanding reporting here at NMI and other online publications, but they are exceptional; mostly, the Internet is punditry. Newspapers, those nifty hand-held gadgets, still carry a lot of useful information. And they focus the public’s attention on how institutions serve us for good or ill.
In an Albuquerque Journal Op-Ed today, Democratic Party of New Mexico Chairman Brian Colón says political motivations are at play in the federal investigation into whether there was a pay-to-play deal between the Richardson administration and CDR Financial.
