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.
Two lawsuits -– one filed by whistleblower Frank Foy, the other by the National Education Association of New Mexico -– seek to recover damages from Texas-based Austin Capital Management, on allegations that they lost money due to fraud. Now the question is whose lawsuit should get first dibs on trying to recover that money.
Frank Foy on Tuesday added a Texas-based firm that caused New Mexico teachers’ pension funds to be indirectly invested in what some are calling one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.
The National Education Association of New Mexico, a major teachers’ union in the state, wants a Texas-based investment firm to pony up to $75 million for the losses New Mexico taxpayers’ experienced thanks to the spectacular fraud perpetrated by Bernie Madoff, according to a lawsuit that was unsealed Tuesday.
