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.
Mayor-elect Richard Berry’s choice for Albuquerque’s next Chief Administrative Officer won’t see smooth sailing when he comes before the City Council in early December for confirmation, if current positions among councilors hold.
Berry, who is a Republican, tapped a Democrat…
Much has been written about the potential change in the Albuquerque police department’s policy on when officers may check a person’s immigration status. Mayor-elect Richard Berry has said he wanted to the model of the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department, where officers use their discretion. Berry’s appointment Tuesday of Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White as his chief public safety officer indicates that the mayor-elect meant what he said.
The Bernalillo County Commission selected Jim White tonight to replace Albuquerque mayor-elect Richard Berry in New Mexico’s House of Representatives.
There had been speculation that the Commission would consider Josh Anderson, a Democrat, who is the political director for…
Albuquerque’s Mayor-elect Richard Berry resigned his legislative seat in the state House of Representatives on Monday. He also announced that Sherman McCorkle will head up his transition team. McCorkle is President and Chief Executive Officer of Technology Ventures Corporation, and a leader in New Mexico economic development initiatives.
The election might be over, but the City Clerk’s office is still hard at work on it. Employees are working to tally the official count of Albuquerque’s municipal election results now, counting provisional ballots as well as a small number…
When Richard Berry moves into Albuquerque’s mayor’s office in December, he’ll inherit a government faced with significant economic challenges. While Mayor Martin Chavez was hammered for companies closing shop and leaving town, the reality is that Albuquerque itself—like other cities—is being hammered by the worst economic crisis the nation has seen in generations.
The big story Tuesday night was R.J. Berry. The two-term Republican state Representative did well in Democratic strongholds. He won with independents. In fact, Berry walked away with what had been viewed as a close race, besting Mayor Martin Chavez and Richard Romero and avoiding a two-man runoff by capturing nearly 44 percent of the vote.
“It’s not over until it’s over,” Chavez told a crowd of supporters gathered at O’Niell’s, adding, “but it doesn’t look good for our side.”
With 26 percent of precincts reporting in the Albuquerque mayoral election, unofficial election results show Richard “R.J.” Berry continues to lead incumbent mayor Martin Chavez and former state Senate Pro Tem Richard Romero.
Richard “RJ” Berry appears to be winning a plurality of the absentee votes.
Political parties are working their get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts in the non-partisan Albuquerque municipal elections. As NMI has observed, the race between incumbent mayor Martin Chavez and former state Senate Pro Tem Richard Romero is looking increasingly like a Democratic…
Public financing appears to be part of the reason the Albuquerque mayor’s race is so competitive. An Albuquerque Journal poll conducted two weeks before the mayoral election surprised observers by showing the race to be much closer than observers had predicted. The big question now is whether one of the candidates can get to 40 percent and avoid a run-off.
Albuquerque’s municipal elections are non-partisan, which means there aren’t party primaries to determine who will be on the ballot, and a person’s party affiliation isn’t listed next to their name on the ballot.
But the mayor’s race all of a…
Albuquerque’s right of center city councilors joined the chorus of endorsements this week, giving their support to Albuquerque mayoral candidate Richard Berry. Councilors Brad Winter, Trudy Jones and Sally Mayer, all registered Republicans, issued statements supporting his candidacy today.
The…
Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White today announced he is endorsing fellow Republican Richard “R.J.” Berry for mayor, saying “I’m disgusted by the false, personal attacks made against Richard Berry and his family. Claiming Berry is not a businessman is like…
Richard “R.J.” Berry and Martin Chavez both accuse each other of improprieties related to the rent they’re paying for office space. Berry pays to rent space from a company he owns, then donates the money to charity, in order to satisfy requirements that he not take the rent as a donation, and that he not profit from public funds. Meanwhile, Mayor Chavez receives his office space as an in-kind donation from a local attorney, who makes the donation personally because to do so from his business would be prohibited.
In his latest TV ad, Albuquerque mayoral candidate Richard Berry labels himself “impeccably honest,” but a photographic sleight of hand in the ad appears to exaggerate the length of time Chavez has spent as mayor.
In the ad, a book is opened…
A group of City of Albuquerque blue collar works gathered on Civic Plaza mid-afternoon last Friday to give a symbolic endorsement to mayoral candidate Richard Romero.
Although Local 624 comprises the biggest subset of City workers, it is just one…
A poll conducted 12 days before the election puts the candidates for mayor within “striking distance” of each other. Berry and Romero have spent months attacking Chavez, who only recently went on the offensive. Albuquerque’s municipal election takes place on October 6.
Under scrutiny over reports that his “family business” is actually owned by his wife, Albuquerque mayoral candidate Richard Berry seems to have suddenly remembered he hadn’t properly registered his own company, R.J. Berry Enterprises.
He registered the business with the…
