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 bill that would require the Educational Retirement Board to publicly disclose the pension amounts for each of its 30,000 members cleared its first House committee Thursday. As The Independent reported in December, a state law
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A bill that would require the Educational Retirement Board to publicly disclose the pension amounts for each of its 30,000 members goes before its first committee Thursday.
At a time when double dipping has invited extra scrutiny in New…
At a time when double dipping has invited extra scrutiny in New Mexico, a new state law bans disclosing to the public the pension amounts for tens of thousands of public-sector retirees.
The ban comes at a time when state officials are struggling to contain costs and have targeted the practice of double dipping, when a public sector retiree returns to work for the state, collecting both a salary and a pension.
