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 State Investment Council (SIC) has given control of a $80 million hedge fund to a Texas-based company connected to placement fees paid to Guy Riordan, a former friend of Gov. Bill Richardson who was banned recently from the securities…
Guy Riordan, a former New Mexico State Game Commission Chairman and friend of Gov. Bill Richardson, has been banned from the securities industry for life and fined $1.5 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, reports the…
Gov. Bill Richardson took the extraordinary step Thursday of banning the use of third-party agents in some state investments, a controversial practice that has burst into the spotlight as names involved in a New York investment scandal have popped up here.
Two of Gov. Bill Richardson’s longtime friends and advisers made headlines last week amid revelations that a federal probe into allegations of pay-to-play politics may reach all the way to the governor’s office. But the bigger story is New Mexico’s chummy political culture in which friendship with the governor and state business can become intertwined.
