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 penny-ante larceny of which Jerome Block, Jr., is accused is small potatoes when compared with the great, hulking pork roast that is the public financing of campaigns. New Mexico currently extracts millions of dollars — with perfect legality — from taxpayers to fund candidates like Block in elections all over the state. That is the theft we should be angry about.
I was surprised to discover that a majority of New Mexico lawmakers saw the need for an entirely new department of state government to help Hispanics succeed. Funny, I thought they were succeeding.
The indictments against Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. and his father are the latest in a parade of high-profile scandals that threaten to knock prominent Democrats off their perches. Some say the drumbeat of scandals is producing momentum for more ethics reform.
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.
The man who lost to Jerome Block Jr. in November for a seat on the state’s Public Regulation Commission (PRC) said Wednesday that the eight indictments of Block handed down today by a grand jury are a “strike” against him, but the PRC chair says Block is doing “a good job.”
Jerome Block Jr. has caught a huge break. In case the name doesn’t ring a bell, Block is the Democrat who won a seat on the powerful Public Regulation Commission despite a campaign marked by dissembling, declining numerous interview requests…
In national news today, President-elect Barack Obama says he plans to keep Bush’s current defense secretary, Robert Gates — at least for the time being. Nobody wants to spend any money, but food stamp usage is nearing…
Newly elected state Public Regulation Commission member Jerome Block Jr. may be facing an impeachment effort by New Mexico’s House of Representatives when the state Legislature convenes in January. This is according to “rumors” heard at the Santa Fe Reporter,…
Despite challenges to his campaign expenditures by the secretary of state’s office, Democratic Public Regulation Commission candidate Jerome Block Jr. took the northern District 3 Public Regulation Commission seat being vacated by newly elected Congressman Ben Ray Lujan in an…
Record turnout for early voting is the lead story in most New Mexico newspapers today, but elections officials from Secretary of State Mary Herrera on down say they still expect long lines at polling stations today, the traditional Election Day.…
New Mexico is a target in the NRA’s national campaign to paint Barack Obama as a threat to gun owners. John McCain appears to be losing the battle for Hispanics, or it would seem that way in Española.…
Jerome Block Jr. just can’t seem to get a decent headline. The Democratic candidate for the Public Regulation Commission has been fined $11,000 by Secretary of State Mary Herrera for campaign violations and must return another $10,000 in public financing,…
Contrary to what the former Bernalillo County Republican Party chairman or the State Senate Majority Whip might think, “Older Hispanics Favor Obama,” says an Albuquerque Journal Poll released today. According to a further analysis of the poll conducted Sept.…
On Friday night I got a chance to sit down separately with two candidates for the Public Regulation Commission — the Green Party’s Rick Lass and Democrat Jason Marks — for KNME’s “New Mexico In Focus.”
The Albuquerque Journal Poll continues today and shows Democrat Martin Heinrich with a narrow lead over Republican Darren White in the race for the 1st Congressional District, but with 16 percent of voters still undecided. In northern New Mexico, the…
In national news, Congress is scheduled to vote today or tonight on a revised Wall Street rescue/bailout plan. NMI’s Heath Haussamen has details about the NM delegations deliberations here. According to the Washington Post, “Leaders of the Senate,…
