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.
State Auditor Hector Balderas has ordered his Special Investigations Division to begin an on-site risk assessment at the Bernalillo School District by the end of next week.
The move follows a risk examination, or review, of Bernalillo School District audit findings since 2006, according to a May 19 letter Balderas wrote to Superintendent Barbara Vigil-Lowder. Audit findings describe accounting problems and violations of the law found during state-mandated annual audits. More …
The Rio Grande Sun, Española’s hard-hitting newspaper, called out the Jemez Mountain School District board in an editorial over the weekend, demanding that board members resign en masse.
The paper’s editorial comes after revelations in mid…
A special audit by the State Auditor’s Office has found that $3.3 million, not the $300,000 as originally thought, was embezzled from the Jemez Mountain School District. The audit concluded that the district’s former business manager, Kathy Borrego, embezzled $3,378,701.27 from the district’s bank accounts from January 8, 2002 through June 4, 2009, according to a news release today from State Auditor Hector Balderas.
