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.
Governor Susana Martinez yesterday appointed Santa Fe energy consultant Doug Howe to fill the vacancy on the state’s Public Regulation Commission. Replacing the indicted Jerome Block Jr. on the embattled commission, Howe steps into the position having worked as vice…
This past Friday, former Public Regulation Commission member Jerome Block Jr. showed up for a mandatory meeting with his Adult Drug Court administrator in Santa Fe’s First Judicial District courthouse only to fail his mandated drug test. As a result, he was remanded into custody at the county jail. Within a few hours, campaign-finance figures for three of the 88 declared candidates were released.
The eighty-eight applicants to officially declare their interest for Jerome Block Jr.’s vacated District 3 commissioner of the Public Regulation Commission, seat include: an American Telepsychiatrists sales representative, the owner of a Santa Fe optical store, a substitute teacher, a musician,…
The New Mexico House subcommittee investigating allegations against PRC Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. in preparation for a possible impeachment trial has hired former U.S. Attorney and Albuquerque lawyer Robert Gorence as counsel.
House Speaker Ben Luján sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders Tuesday outlining plans to form a subcommittee during the special session to investigate allegations against PRC Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., which would ultimately decide whether to recommend impeachment for the full House.
Public Regulation Commission Chief of Staff Johnny Montoya has proposed limits to employee gas cards stemming from records showing Commissioner Jerome Block charged $5,000 in six weeks to his card.
Jerome Block, Jr., absent since July 28 after records surfaced that he misused a state-issued gas card, returned to Santa Fe Tuesday and said he had a prescription drug addiction but would not resign from his post on the Public Regulation Commission.
A search warrant unsealed Friday shows that Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., did not only buy multiple gas fill-ups — within minutes of each other and for other people as well as himself — but he also bought chimichangas, cigarettes and Gatorade. He also used the PRC cards of two other employees.
Embattled Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., received a vote of “no confidence” Thursday that removed him from his post as vice chairman of the committee.
All four Public Regulation Commissioners signed a statement urging Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., to resign his seat Tuesday; Block was not present at the proceedings.
Scandal-plagued Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. is a suspect in a stolen auto case, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican.
KOB News has been investigating Public Regulation Commissioner Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., and found that he drove a state vehicle for 11 months with a suspended license and racked up $5,000 in charges to a state-issued gas card in six weeks.
A district judge has dismissed half of the charges against Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. and his father, a former PRC member, ruling that the attorney general overstepped his authority with the indictments.
The chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico says the indictment of Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr., a Democrat, is another reminder of the importance of a strong two-party system.
Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. and his father were indicted today on election-related charges.
Both were charged with violating the elections code, conspiring to violate the elections code, tampering with evidence and conspiring to tamper with evidence.…
The news from Santa Fe is not good again for PRC candidate Jerome Block Jr. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the Secretary of State’s Office wants to investigate why Block donated $1,500 of his campaign funds to the…
A New Mexico Republican leader is under fire today for writing a letter to the editor of the Alamogordo Daily News in which she called Barack Obama a “Muslim socialist.” Oh, but it gets worse. Marcia Stirman, the leader…
We reported in Wednesday’s Top Stories that Jerome Block, who is running for the Public Regulation Commission, was having trouble explaining two campaign payments to the San Miguel County Clerk, Paul Maez. (Block said the money was for Maez’s band to…
An audit of Bernalillo County ballots shows vote counting machines have a very low margin of error, differing an average of 1.9 percent from hand-counting, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The audit of ballots cast in…
