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.
Democratic incumbent Gary King leads his Republican challenger Matt Chandler by a wide margin more than two months before November’s election, according to Albuquerque Journal Poll results released today.
Nearly half of the voters — 48 percent…
Former state elections director A.J. Salazar tells Heath Haussamen over at NMpolitics.net today that he doesn’t share his attorney’s sentiment that New Mexico Attorney General Gary King is playing election-year politics.
On Thursday, Salazar’s attorney, Rudy Martin of…
If he were a state lawmaker, New Mexico Attorney General Gary King said Wednesday, he would not vote for legislation that would give state driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
“Under the current situation, where we are concerned about illegal immigrants,…
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King has written a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision in favor of Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps is a Kansas preacher who has made…
New Mexico’s Tea Parties are planning to present Attorney General Gary King with a petition to join other states’ lawsuits against the federal government to reverse health care reform. But the tide seems to be turning against support for such a move, if letters to the AG website are any indication. After an initial flood of often vitriolic comments demanding New Mexico sue the federal government to halt health reform, mid-April brought a majority of letters opposed to such a suit, The Independent has found.
The state Legislature on Thursday morning passed a bill that would reform the State Investment Council. The Governor has said he will sign the bill.
A special prosecutor hired by the New Mexico Attorney General would investigate and recover any money lost from state investment funds due to fraud under legislation that unanimously passed the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon. “I believe personally that we…
A bill that would transfer oversight of the State Investment Council from the executive branch to the state Attorney General‘s office cleared a powerful Senate Committee on Thursday morning. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Tim Keller,…
A state grand jury heard testimony about former New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron’s spending of federal money Monday and Tuesday, the Albuquerque Journal reported today.
The grand jury is investigating how Vigil-Giron’s office spent approximately $6.3…
