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.
Law firms in Albuquerque, New York City and Washington, D.C. have joined to file a class-action lawsuit against former New Mexico Investment Officer Gary Bland and members of the Educational Retirement Board, according to the Santa Fe Reporter.
New Mexico has lost another $27 million in an investment involving the son of a friend and fundraiser for Gov. Bill Richardson, Marc Correra, who shared in more than half a million dollars in fees for the deal. Correra also shared $2 million in fees on a 2006 investment deal that cost the state $90 million after it went sour.
A spokesman for Gov. Bill Richardson informed NMI earlier today that the governor did not meet with the son of a friend and prominent fundraiser in the months leading up to the state’s decision to invest in a fund…
The Independent sought to view documents from the governor’s office from January through August 2006 that would have divulged with whom he had met in the months prior to the costly investment that benefitted the son of the governor’s friend to the tune of millions of dollars.
Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday banned controversial finders’ fees through executive order.
On Friday, he said he’d consider legislation to immortalize the ban in state statute. “I’ll consider that,” Richardson said Friday at the College of Santa Fe.
