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.
Public Regulation Commission (PRC) Commissioner Jason Marks of Albuquerque, who is attending a two-day renewable energy transmission conference in Arizona, was “a little surprised” Thursday afternoon to learn other commissioners had appointed Craig Dunbar as the new…
PRC Chairman David King’s executive assistant, Craig Dunbar, was named the state’s new interim insurance superintendent Thursday afternoon. Among Dunbar’s first tasks will be taking over the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico rate hike fight as its new hearing officer, King told The Independent.
Interim state Insurance Superintendent Thomas Rushton will retire effective June 22, Public Regulation Commission (PRC) Chairman David King confirmed Monday evening.
Rushton was appointed Interim Insurance Superintendent May 4, immediately upon the resignation of former superintendent Morris…
Interim state Insurance Superintendent Tom Rushton may rescind his predecessor’s April 26 approval of a Blue Cross Blue Shield New Mexico health insurance rate hike — the result of a weekend settlement Rushton helped negotiate to the outrage of policyholders and Public Regulation Commission (PRC) commissioners. Commissioners want Rushton to stand aside while the rate increase is re-examined, and Commission chairman David King is calling for a third-party audit of the insurer’s books.
