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.
Speaker Ben Lujan is trying to keep the House from voting on an open government bill that would override one of Gov. Bill Richardson’s 2009 vetoes, Rep. Paul Bandy, R-Aztec, charged Monday.
The Senate voted to override Richardson’s veto…
Senators on Tuesday voted 33-4 to overturn Gov. Bill Richardson’s 2009 veto of a bill that would have given the Legislature more say over who sits on the State Investment Council. It was the state Senate’s second veto override vote in as many days.
The Senate voted Monday to overrideGov. Bill Richardson’s veto of a 2009 bill that would have required state agencies to share confidential data with the Legislative Finance Committee. The tension between the LFC and state agencies over lack of sharing data has simmered for years. But last month, The Independent revealed, in an exclusive story, that an Attorney General’s report shows the state had hindered Medicaid fraud investigations.
