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.
The eighty-eight applicants to officially declare their interest for Jerome Block Jr.’s vacated District 3 commissioner of the Public Regulation Commission, seat include: an American Telepsychiatrists sales representative, the owner of a Santa Fe optical store, a substitute teacher, a musician,…
In the wake of Public Regulation Commission member Jerome Block Jr.’s resignation, a new report says that the problems afflicting the state regulator go deeper than any one individual.
Republicans and Democrats in the state are divided over which court should be assigned the task of redrawing New Mexico’s federal and state legislative districts, and Democrats have asked the state’s highest court to pick a location.
The New Mexico House subcommittee investigating allegations against PRC Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. in preparation for a possible impeachment trial has hired former U.S. Attorney and Albuquerque lawyer Robert Gorence as counsel.
House Speaker Ben Luján named the members of a subcommittee of the House Rules Committee to investigate allegations against PRC Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., and whether to recommend impeachment for the full House by the end of the special session.
House Speaker Ben Luján sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders Tuesday outlining plans to form a subcommittee during the special session to investigate allegations against PRC Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., which would ultimately decide whether to recommend impeachment for the full House.
Public Regulation Commission Chief of Staff Johnny Montoya has proposed limits to employee gas cards stemming from records showing Commissioner Jerome Block charged $5,000 in six weeks to his card.
Jerome Block, Jr., absent since July 28 after records surfaced that he misused a state-issued gas card, returned to Santa Fe Tuesday and said he had a prescription drug addiction but would not resign from his post on the Public Regulation Commission.
A search warrant unsealed Friday shows that Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., did not only buy multiple gas fill-ups — within minutes of each other and for other people as well as himself — but he also bought chimichangas, cigarettes and Gatorade. He also used the PRC cards of two other employees.
The electrical utility PNM and other parties signed the Public Regulation Commission’s $72 million rate hike that passed the committee on July 28, accepting less than what they had originally asked for.
Embattled Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., received a vote of “no confidence” Thursday that removed him from his post as vice chairman of the committee.
All four Public Regulation Commissioners signed a statement urging Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., to resign his seat Tuesday; Block was not present at the proceedings.
Scandal-plagued Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. is a suspect in a stolen auto case, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican.
KOB News has been investigating Public Regulation Commissioner Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., and found that he drove a state vehicle for 11 months with a suspended license and racked up $5,000 in charges to a state-issued gas card in six weeks.
The New Mexico Supreme Court struck down a surcharge designed to compensate utilities for electricity conservation, saying that the Public Regulation Commission did not apply a cost-benefit analysis to the rule.
The Public Regulation Commission approved a 9.1 percent rate hike for the Public Service Company of New Mexico Thursday, slightly less than what the utility asked for.
Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr. has struggled to pay more than $2,000 in debts over the past year, including one to a fellow commissioner and another to a youth group on whose board of directors he sits. Those debts are just the latest headache for Block, who said he has already paid $400,000 in legal fees to defend himself against criminal charges stemming his handling of public campaign funds.
Democrat Stephanie DuBois has lost her bid for the powerful and controversial Public Regulation Commission (PRC)’s District 2 seat to outgoing state land commissioner Patrick Lyons, a Republican, she conceded at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday night. Lyons will replace PRC chairman…
The state Division of Insurance will not publicly disclose a corrective action plan prepared in response to a scathing audit that slammed Division oversight of the insurance industry, according to an e-mailed Division response to The Independent’s Inspection…
Planned policy changes announced last month to restrict employees’ contact with journalists at the Public Regulation Commission (PRC) will not be implemented in the near future, Chief of Staff Michael Rivera has told The Independent.
“It’s going…
