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.
Martin Resendiz, the Mayor of Sunland Park, a community of around 15,000 people near Las Cruces, admitted to signing contracts with a San Diego–based parking design firm while drunk. The deal, totaling more than $1 million, was penned at a local restaurant, the Albuquerque Journal reports. Now the company, Synthesis +, is suing the city for nonpayment.
Sunland Park mayor David Resendiz is reportedly set to enter the 2nd Congressional District race as a Democrat, according to reports from Capitol Report New Mexico and the Las Cruces Sun-News. Resendiz would be the first Democrat to enter the race.
Incumbents won re-election bids in Hatch on Tuesday but lost in Sunland Park.
Former Sunland Park Municipal Judge Horacio Favela was sentenced to 18 months on probation Thursday for fraudulently voting and registering as a candidate for judge, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting.
Favela was convicted in August of falsely declaring…
Now here’s an actual voter-fraud case being prosecuted by the office of Doña Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez.
Sunland Park has had so much scandal and controversy over the years that this might not surprise anyone, but New Mexico State Police seized documents from the city’s government on Friday as part of a criminal probe, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News.
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