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 Richardson administration pulled out all the stops to keep Gary Bland on the SIC,” Foy’s attorney, Victor Marshall, said at a small news conference Tuesday. But four SIC members said they never felt pressure from the Richardson in the days before the former state investment officer resigned.
Minutes after a houseboat piloted by Gov. Bill Richardson‘s chief of staff Brian Condit had crashed into another boat Sept. 5, a woman called 911 to report: “The people who are driving it are drunk.”
So writes Tom…
During last month’s special legislative session Richardson prohibited state lawmakers from repealing past tax cuts or raising taxes. But on Monday he said tax increases will be needed when state lawmakers convene in January to address perhaps New Mexico’s most serious financial challenge in decades.
Facing an enormous budget crisis, some legislators have aimed their sights at the governor, attempting to limit his political appointees, which range from cabinet secretaries to the governor’s mansion chef, who earns over $90,000, and First Lady Barbara Richardson’s assistant, who earns over $100,000.
Three days into the special legislative session, a nearly $900 million structural deficit continues to confound the New Mexico Legislature. Meanwhile, Richardson, the state’s bigger-than-life chief executive and former presidential candidate, finds himself attacked from both the political right and left.
New Mexico public schools could be cut by $77 million under a budget-balancing scenario that could be on the table in today’s deficit talks, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.
The paper reports that Senate Finance Committee Chairman, John…
The governor’s office did not respond to two e-mail messages and a phone call sent Monday and Tuesday, asking why Governor Richardson’s chief of staff, Brian Condit, had not returned to the scene of a houseboat accident he caused over Labor Day weekend. The Governor’s office has also declined to make Condit available for an interview.
Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday that he and his party stayed 30 minutes at the scene of Saturday’s houseboat accident at Elephant Butte State Park.
But the eyewitness who told NMI the governor left within two or three minutes is standing firm on his version of the events. And the two parks officers who responded to last Saturday’s accident said through an agency spokesperson that they did not see the governor or his chief of staff, Brian Condit, when they arrived on the scene, 20 minutes after the crash.
Did Brian Condit, Gov. Bill Richardson’s chief of staff, violate state law when he, Richardson and the governor’s entourage left the scene of a Sept. 5 boating accident at Elephant Butte Lake?
At least one state lawmaker believes the New Mexico State Legislature should strengthen a law that currently gives an operator of a boat two days to provide information to officers investigating an accident involving the craft. The law allowed Gov. Bill Richardson’s chief of staff, Brian Condit, to wait two days before he called an officer to discuss a boat accident at Elephant Butte State Park over the Labor Day weekend.
Gov. Bill Richardson, his chief of staff Brian Condit, budget secretary Katherine Miller and security officers were gone within minutes from the scene of an accident Saturday in which a houseboat was sideswiped and another was smashed into at Elephant Butte State Park, according to an eyewitness.
Gov. Bill Richardson demanded Monday that state agencies identify an additional 3 percent of current year operating budgets for potential reduction in the special session tentatively scheduled for October.
The request comes on top of the cuts approved in this…
Gov. Bill Richardson reiterated Tuesday that he isn’t interested in scaling back his 2003 state income tax cuts or the state tax incentive program for films that his administration vigorously defended over the years.
But the state’s looming budget gap…
Everyone agreed Thursday on the need to move quickly to address this year’s $454 million state budget gap. How to cover the shortfall is the rub.
New Mexico’s public schools would see cuts of $76 million under a budget proposal Gov. Bill Richardson outlined Monday. The cuts are part of a two-year spending plan Richardson unveiled Monday in anticipation of legislative session, which begins January 20.
