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.
Attorneys for Rebecca Vigil-Giron and Armando Gutierrez said Wednesday afternoon had very little to say about the indictments returned on their clients, saying that hadn’t yet received the indictments.
Former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron was one of four people indicted today by a state grand jury following an investigation into the alleged mishandling of millions of dollars in federal voter education funds by her office.
Former New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron confirmed today that she is a target of an investigation into the spending of millions of dollars in federal funds on voter education by her office — an investigation that is…
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…
In an article I published earlier today, I quoted Secretary of State spokesman James Flores as saying his boss, Mary Herrera, has “issued more administrative rules and procedures than any past administration.”
That may not be true, at least as far as the administrative rules go.
Former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron is blaming politics for a recently released audit that found severe mismanagement of federal Help America Vote Act funds by her administration — an audit she says is severely flawed.
An audit released Tuesday of the Secretary of State’s office under Rebecca Vigil-Giron adds to the body of evidence of shoddy bookkeeping, state procurement code violations and general rule-breaking during her tenure.
Rebecca Vigil-Giron is under investigation by New Mexico’s attorney general for her role in the use of federal voter education funds while she was secretary of state, reported Thomas Cole of the Albuquerque Journal over the weekend.
Using funds provided…
In addition to trying to keep the state out of red ink, state lawmakers will take up the equivalent of a legislative parlor trick when they convene this January to resolve a $6 million debt with the federal government.
The Secretary of…
The state of New Mexico is on the hook to the federal government for $6 million for improperly billing voter-education-related expenses from 2004 through 2006, a federal elections agency says. And several state agencies are scrambling to find the money by Friday, the latest in a series of deadlines, officials said.
Former Secretary of State and 1st Congressional District candidate Rebecca Vigil-Giron has landed a state job in Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration. UNM has hired the son of President David Schmidly to a newly created position that pays $94,000.…
