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.
Four months after Gov. Bill Richardson seemingly set in motion a change in the state’s four-year $1 billion behavioral health contract New Mexico appears to be leaning toward making no change. Providers and others across the state have told state officials in a series of recent public hearings that a transition would create havoc for them and the clients they serve.
In an extraordinary move, Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday directed a state agency that oversees behavioral health services to put the state’s $1 billion contract out to bid only seven months into the troubled tenure of Optum Health Care.
Once Value Options found out it lost New Mexico’s behavioral health contract, it started cutting back on children’s services to increase profits, a group of providers charges. The state has threatened to file a temporary restraining order to force the company to continue care until the contract is up at the end of June.
