WNMU board chair defends handling of ethics investigations; public calls on mass resignations

Dec. 14—The parting shot on Thursday from the outgoing chair of the Western New Mexico University Board of Regents was that embattled President Joe Shepard and the board, accused by the state auditor of spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer funds on lavish furniture and foreign business trips, are being treated unfairly in the court of public opinion. Mary Hotvedt's comments came in a ...