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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

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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

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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.

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Behavioral health contract to be put out to bid

By | 01.18.10 | 4:57 pm

In an extraordinary move, Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday directed a state agency that oversees behavioral health services to put the state’s $1 billion contract out to bid only seven months into the troubled tenure of Optum Health Care.

ValueOptions cut services to kids after losing $1B contract, lawsuit alleges

By | 05.29.09 | 7:23 pm

Once Value Options found out it lost New Mexico’s behavioral health contract, it started cutting back on children’s services to increase profits, a group of providers charges. The state has threatened to file a temporary restraining order to force the company to continue care until the contract is up at the end of June.

ValueOptions didn’t file complaint with federal investigators

By | 05.22.09 | 2:20 pm

ValueOptions New Mexico, which has been loudly protesting the recent awarding of the state’s behavioral health services contract to another company, says it didn’t initiate the federal investigation into the procurement process.