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.
A former Lovington School District employee faces 12 counts of embezzlement for $15,000 worth of falsified checks—less than a month after confessed Jemez Mountain Schools embezzler Kathy Borrego committed suicide in Abiquiu. Lovington is just one of five New Mexico school districts Balderas has designated as “at risk” for failing to complete state-mandated audits. Other school districts fail to maintain basic internal controls to prevent fraud and theft.
The House easily approved a bill Wednesday that would temporarily withhold funding from government agencies that don’t submit timely audits. The bill now heads to the Senate, with less than 24 hours until the session ends.
State Auditor Hector Balderas wants legislators to pass three new laws that would give his office teeth, including one making it a crime to mislead or obstruct auditors.
After facing what amounted to a funding cut of 14 percent earlier this year, state Auditor Hector Balderas’ office says it may not be able to do its job if it loses additional funds the Legislature voted to take…
The Jemez Mountain School District received a clean bill of health from an auditing firm just months before an alleged $3.3 million embezzlement scheme was uncovered, the Albuquerque Journal reports today.
Reporter Martin Salazar writes that “Accounting & Consulting…
