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When they really enjoy the very best fatalities

By Michael Swickard, Ph.D. | December 11, 2009

Even after thousands of years of human intellectual advancement, the same blood lust central to the society that enjoyed going to the Roman Coliseum to watch gladiators kill each other is alive and well in our own society. Continue Reading

Lawmakers to consider investment reform

By Peter St. Cyr | November 30, 2009

The legislative Investment Oversight Committee will meet today for the last time before the upcoming session to consider three bills that could dramatically reform state investment agencies, which have been plagued by scandal in recent months. Continue Reading

Good things are happening in state government

By Gary King | November 25, 2009

Good things have happened for New Mexico so far in 2009. We should be thankful for the good, and perhaps the bad can be put into proper perspective. Here are a few of those good things in which the Attorney General’s Office was involved. Continue Reading

An explanation of the CDR indictments

By Dennis Kintigh | November 24, 2009

I have been surprised at the minimal attention given to the recent indictment of the heads of CDR Financial Products — David Rubin, Zevi Wolmark and Evan Zarefsky. Here’s a look at what’s contained in the indictments. Continue Reading

State Investment Council releases subpoenas

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | November 18, 2009

Months after the N.M. Educational Retirement Board reversed courses and releases subpoenas it had previously withheld from the public, the State Investment Council did the same on Tuesday. Continue Reading

Guv may be deposed in housing authority case

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | November 17, 2009

Gov. Bill Richardson may be asked to share, under oath, whether he knows anything about the scandal in the state’s housing authority system that culminated in 2006 with the default of $5 million in bonds owed to the State Investment Council. Continue Reading

Let’s give the state auditor some teeth

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | November 15, 2009

Government agencies shouldn’t be allowed to get away with ignoring a state law requiring them to submit annual audits, but nearly three dozen are doing just that. How do we know those agencies aren’t rife with corruption? We don’t. Continue Reading

Why should our citizens be intentionally defenseless?

By Michael Swickard, Ph.D. | November 13, 2009

To get a pool of conceal-carry protectors quietly hidden among the defenseless in crowds, there must be adequate protection of those who protect us. A society that thinly veils its threats against people taking up arms for protection will not have those citizens protecting them. Continue Reading

VIDEO, AUDIO: Johnson still pushing drug-law reform

By Peter St. Cyr | November 12, 2009

Former Gov. Gary Johnson is still speaking out about decriminalizing and legalizing drugs in the United States. Click on the headline to listen to a speech he gave Tuesday at the University of New Mexico and watch an exclusive interview with him. Continue Reading

DWI arrest puts former state official’s federal job in limbo

By Peter St. Cyr | November 6, 2009

Blowing a .08 on a breathalyzer test, failing field sobriety tests and being arrested for suspicion of drunken driving raises questions about whether Cindy Padilla will actually fulfill her appointment as deputy assistant secretary on aging in the U.S. Health and Humans Services Department. Continue Reading

Housing authority bond deal involved CDR

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | November 2, 2009

In a new, in-depth report into the embattled CDR Financial Products, Bloomberg details $27.7 million in bonds NM’s Region III Housing Authority sold in 2003 “with the help of” CDR. Continue Reading

CDR Financial indicted in bid-rigging probe

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | October 29, 2009

UPDATED: The company that was at the center of the scandal that cost Gov. Bill Richardson the U.S. commerce secretary post was indicted along with three employees today as part of a national probe into bid rigging in the municipal bond market. Continue Reading

Bill would give chief justice oversight of cuts to DAs’ budgets

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | October 22, 2009

UPDATED: House Bill 17, which would implement some $220 million in cuts to most state agencies, public education and Medicaid, contains an interesting provision related to the state’s district attorneys. Continue Reading

Corrections Department already cutting budget

By Peter St. Cyr | October 22, 2009

Spokeswoman says the department has been planning for a 3.5 percent decrease in its budget. Cuts the department has already implemented include moving inmates from private to state-owned prisons and feeding inmates less. Continue Reading

Lyons: Bland pushed firms to hire certain agents

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | October 22, 2009

The State Investment Council has learned that Gary Bland, who resigned Wednesday, pressured investment firms to hire certain placement agents, Land Commissioner Pat Lyons says. Continue Reading

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