The New Mexico Independent

Top Stories

The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

Mesa Verde 80
By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

jobs-80
By | 11.10.11

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.

Posts Tagged Sen. Dianna Duran

Bill would resolve years-old question: Who has to maintain voting machines

By | 01.27.10 | 11:34 am

The state would be responsible for maintaining the state’s more than 1,000 voting tabulators if a Senate bill introduced this session becomes law.

SB 136, sponsored by Sen. Dianna Duran, R-Tularosa, also would direct $350,000 from a state fund to help pay…

N.M. Senate Rules Committee kills ban on contributions from state contractors

By | 03.13.09 | 10:38 am

The New Mexico Senate Rules Committee voted 3-2 to table a proposal to ban all campaign contributions from contractors that do business with the state.

State Sens. Tim Jennings, Stuart Ingle and Dianna Duran voted to table…

Effort to ‘politicize’ N.M. DOT district engineers questioned by lawmakers

By | 03.12.09 | 7:03 am

Lawmakers hit New Mexico’s secretary of the Department of Transportation, Gary Giron, with questions Wednesday about a controversial piece of legislation that, in their opinion, would “politicize” the agency’s six district engineers.

Pension forfeiture measure for convicted public officials clears committee

By | 02.13.09 | 10:17 am

A bill that would require public officials convicted of felony corruption to forfeiture their pension benefits cleared the Senate Rules Committee this morning.