By Daniel Libit
File this under: Same song, different verse.
In May, the University of New Mexico announced that Dreamstyle Remodeling would be the new naming-rights holder for The Pit and University Stadium. The agreement had the Albuquerque company paying UNM $10 million for the next decade of sponsorship. It piggybacked off the faltered deal UNM had struck, three years before, with WisePies Pizza and Salad. Continue reading “Why We’re Suing Learfield/Lobo Sports Properties”
By Daniel Libit
The UNM Foundation and University of New Mexico Board of Regents have now formally responded in court to our public records lawsuit, arguing, among other things, that the Foundation’s resistance to transparency is actually a defense of the First Amendment. Continue reading “UNM Fund: 1st Amendment Crusader?”
By Daniel Libit
According to its official slogan, the University of New Mexico Foundation is, “Where generosity meets excellence.”
Left unstated, however, is that the Foundation is also where generosity meets secrecy.
Actually, that might have once been stated rather explicitly. A 2015 Columbia Journalism Review article reported that the UNM Foundation’s website once advertised the following benefit to donors:
“[g]reater assurance of … confidentiality, since [it] is a separate not-for-profit corporation and not subject to open records laws.”
Curiously, those words no longer appear online, but the ethos of obfuscation continues to abound — for now.
This week, in Bernalillo County Court, I filed the very first open records lawsuit against the Foundation. Continue reading “Why We’re Suing the UNM Foundation”
