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.
It’s unclear if all the third-party marketers involved in the New Mexico’s investment deals were properly registered with a federal government agency, state officials said earlier this week.
But at least one individual who shared in millions…
The powerful chairman of New Mexico’s Senate Finance Committee called on Gov. Bill Richardson to do a thorough housecleaning of the state’s investment team Tuesday.
State Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, said that until the state has a…
It seems there’s a scandal popping up every other day in New Mexico. And state Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, has had enough.
“As an elected official here, I am embarrassed to serve in New Mexico,” Smith told a roomful…
New Mexico House Speaker Ben Lujan angrily denounced state Sen. John Arthur Smith today as a “racist S.O.B.” and “full of shit” because Smith questioned Lujan’s efforts to slip an amendment into a bill to benefit a private developer.
Everyone agreed Thursday on the need to move quickly to address this year’s $454 million state budget gap. How to cover the shortfall is the rub.
The state Senate just recessed for an hour so that a powerful legislative committee can meet to discuss committee assignments.
There is much interest in who is selected as chairs to Senate committees after the Senate Democratic caucus was divided…
The state’s budget situation is bad, real bad, much worse than how it is portrayed in the media.
That was the warning Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, used to open a three-day legislative hearing in Santa Fe on Wednesday.
Gov. Bill Richardson’s budget staff on Monday offered a view of the state’s deteriorating financial situation and proposed solutions on how to fix it. But not everyone was convinced that the administration’s view of the crisis reflected reality.
Thousands of New Mexicans’ driving records have more traffic-violation “points” than they should, the state Taxation and Revenue Department admits, because of a reporting system flaw that came to light while officials were looking into the traffic records of…
