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.
Attorney General Gary King attempted to cover up allegations of wrongdoing by Secretary of State Mary Herrera to protect Democrats during an election year, an Española attorney charged Thursday. A spokesman for King said the charges amount to election-year mudslinging and are a product of the attorney’s imagination.
Is Secretary of State Mary Herrera playing the snoop? It appears that way, writes Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican. Herrera submitted a public records request for e-mail correspondence by several individuals, including critics of her office.…
Green Party activists are suing Secretary of State Mary Herrera to win spots on this November’s election ballot after a would-be candidate was turned away from registering for a congressional race last month. Candidates for the Green Party failed to win enough votes in 2008 election races to automatically keep the party on the ballot for 2010, Deputy Secretary of State Don Francisco Trujillo II said Friday.
The New Mexico Secretary of State’s office got its new Campaign Finance Information System up and running on a shoestring budget of just $176,500.
But that could change if the system needs additional work. Under a state pricing agreement with…
The longstanding battle over who owns the state’s more than 1,900 voting tabulators – the counties or the state – appears settled, and none too soon with this year’s elections fast approaching. A bill Gov. Bill Richardson signed into law…
Secretary of State Mary Herrera is sounding the alarm as loud as she can at the Roundhouse: there isn’t enough money for 2010 primary or general election.
An Albuquerque company found security lapses at the problem-plagued Secretary of State’s computer system, reports the Albuquerque Journal.
A spokesman for New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera reiterated Wednesday that the agency is continuing to work on “producing or procuring a new campaign finance reporting system.”
New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera is calling on the Legislature to pony up more money to pay for a first-rate campaign finance reporting system.
In a letter sent July 27 to a prominent state lawmaker, Herrera says…
A federal court on Monday ruled that the state of New Mexico had violated two nonprofits’ rights to free speech last year by attempting to force them to disclose the origin of the money that had paid for mailers that were critical of state lawmakers.
A federal court judge ruled today that the state of New Mexico was in the wrong for trying to require two nonprofit organizations to register as political committees after they sent mailings to constituents in 2008 that were…
Last month’s paralyzing shutdown of the Secretary of State’s computer systems and web site has state lawmakers asking how to make New Mexico’s constitutional offices subject to the same IT rules most other state agencies comply with. But the state’s IT chief, Marlin Mackey — who has authority over how most state agencies manage information technology — doesn’t have such control over the state’s constitutional offices, Mackey said.
The New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office (SOS) decided to build its own new campaign finance reporting database rather than spend upwards of $800,000 to buy an “off-the-shelf” product, Deputy Secretary of State Don Francisco Trujillo II said Friday.
This just in from KUNM FM 89.9: “This week on the KUNM call-in show Arcie Chapa continues our look at the 2009 Legislative Session with coverage of a bill that seeks to define what nonprofits can and can’t do…
New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera just announced that by Thursday the department had registered more than 500 lobbyists and 600 lobbyist organizations for the 2009 Legislative session.
And it expects that more than 1,000 lobbyists will be…
Bill Richardson, the self-proclaimed go-to guy in New Mexico’s hour of need, has been traveling the world in service to Barack Obama but he’s done little to ensure that New Mexico will have a smooth election. Will the Land of Enchantment be the Florida of 2008?
