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.
Talk about re-framing the debate, supporters of legalizing marijuana in California have ditched old arguments of harmlessness to tout the potential monetary windfall that taxing cannabis could bring to a state struggling with a $20 billion budgetary shortfall, the…
Gov. Bill Richardson recently ordered five furlough days for state workers and said he wants to eliminate more than 1,000 vacant positions across state government as a response to New Mexico’s worsening financial situation. But next year’s budget likely…
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has led the charge on bad actors in the investment world, including one or two here in New Mexico, now is going after Intel Corp, which has a big presence in the…
An early, controlled release of state prisoners has been mentioned as a consequence of deep spending cuts ordered by the New Mexico Legislature to the state’s $5 billion budget. Whether that actually occurs is unclear. My bet is that it…
Green power is taking a step forward. And Clovis, N.M., is at the center of the progress.
A flurry of stories over the past 24 hours, from national news organizations like Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, have…
New Mexico’s state tax revenue fell more than any other state except Alaska between the second quarters of 2008 and 2009, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
New Mexico, whose leaders are currently working to plug a budget…
By now you know — or you should — that New Mexico has a big, fat budget hole.
Economists and other state officials estimate that weak tax revenue has left the state $440 million or so short of what it needs to cover expenses for the year that ends June 30. Gov. Bill Richardson and state lawmakers are negotiating over what to do about the shortfall, what to take off the table as an option and what to leave on. More …
The Wall Street Journal went after New Mexico Attorney General Gary King this weekend for a third time in its ongoing “pay-to-sue” assault. Its new editorial reveals that the newspaper is not treating King fairly and is doing a disservice to its readers.
Attorney General Gary King now says the entire basis for the Wall Street Journal’s “pay-to-sue” assault on him is false.
It’s true that the Williams Bailey law firm gave $25,000 to King’s AG campaign on…
Five months lapsed between two contracts that the state attorney general’s office signed with a Houston law firm that’s suing a drug company on behalf of New Mexico. While the Gary King’s office says it was an oversight, the Wall Street Journal suggests an ulterior motive.
We’re headed all over the place in this roundup of what’s going on the blogosphere, but let’s start with Earth Day (which, by the way, is tomorrow). SFReeper.com gives the facts on the day and activities planned in Santa Fe. And two state lawmakers author a guest column published today on Democracy for New Mexico about Earth Day and the “new reality in New Mexico.”
Attorney General Gary King says any implication made by the Wall Street Journal of pay to play by him or his administration is false.
The Wall Street Journal is taking a hard swipe at N.M. Attorney General Gary King and others it says are involved in a national “pay-to-sue” scheme that reeks of pay-to-play politics.
Did you know that it’s fairly common for members of Congress to give their staffers bonuses, courtesy of your tax dollars?
In all the hoopla leading up to the inauguration, we failed to point NMI readers to an interesting Wall Street Journal article about New Mexico’s “unusual — and lightly regulated — political culture.”
Before describing the current pay-to-play federal…
