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.
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…
As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, 39 candidates still had not submitted campaign finance reports to the Secretary of State’s new Campaign Finance Information System, State Elections Director Don Francisco Trujillo told The Independent.
“It just shows that they are going out of their way to hide something,” Santa Fe County Clerk Valerie Espinoza said in an interview with KOB-TV, referring to the extensive, and perhaps overzealous, redactions in e-mails released by the…
KUNM’s Jim Williams sends along this update on the Secretary of State’s office:
Secretary of State Mary Herrera is firing back over allegations that her office is poorly managed. As KUNM reported last week, several former Elections division employees have…
Rep. Henry “Kiki” Saavedra, D-Albuquerque told the Independent Monday that he will raise the issue of trying to get enough money for the 2010 elections when the House and Senate meet to hammer out a budget deal.
Secretary of State Mary Herrera is sounding the alarm as loud as she can at the Roundhouse: there isn’t enough money for 2010 primary or general election.
New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera said late Wednesday that the computer systems in her office that enable database searches and Uniform Commercial Code filings should be back online Thursday.
Herrera wrote in an e-mail that those…
Talk about putting a positive spin on a bad situation. A posted message on the New Mexico secretary of state’s Web site claims that “upgrades” are the reason the office’s computer systems and Web site are down.
“SECRETARY OF…
The New Mexico secretary of state’s Web site has been in various stages of not working right — and sometimes not working at all — for several days now.
USA Today reported earlier today that 230,000 New Mexicans had voted through early and absentee voting. And that high number seemed to be borne out by numbers confirmed by the New Mexico Secretary of State’s office on…
Who compiles New Mexico’s voting data on election night? The answer to that question might depend on whom you ask.
Jim Williams of KUNM explains how an obscure Tijeras firm named Auburn SeeWolf aggregates voting information from across the state…
