Chevron Corporation gave the single largest contribution to a dark money group that attempted but failed to stop the growing influence of progressive lawmakers in the Legislature during this year’s primary election, campaign filings show. The New Mexico Project, which for months fought divulging the source of its money and the details of its spending […]
Communities
Posted inWestside Albuquerque
Updated: Albuquerque Journal editor resigns following shoplifting charge in Rio Rancho
Patrick Ethridge, the Albuquerque Journal’s top editor, resigned his position Thursday afternoon a few hours after a Rio Rancho Municipal Court judge approved his release from custody. Rio Rancho Municipal Court Judge Michael Gibson granted Ethridge’s early release Thursday morning after Ehtridge withdrew a previously entered guilty plea and pleaded no contest. Gibson originally sentenced […]
Posted inPueblos
Democrats try to find political salvation in the Southwest
By Paul Kane, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Once the leading edge of Western conservatism, four states in the Southwest have shifted over the last two decades to become a Democratic firewall, giving the party a fighter’s chance of keeping the Senate majority and bolstering their presidential prospects. Ahead of the 2004 elections, six of […]
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Democrats try to find political salvation in the Southwest
By Paul Kane, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Once the leading edge of Western conservatism, four states in the Southwest have shifted over the last two decades to become a Democratic firewall, giving the party a fighter’s chance of keeping the Senate majority and bolstering their presidential prospects. Ahead of the 2004 elections, six of […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
Rep. Jim Jordan angles to lead a possible House Republican minority
By Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is not known for being generous with moderate colleagues. During the earliest days of his two decades in the House, the far-right firebrand often ignored, or publicly defied, the more centrist members of his party. But with his sights again set […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
Rep. Jim Jordan angles to lead a possible House Republican minority
By Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is not known for being generous with moderate colleagues. During the earliest days of his two decades in the House, the far-right firebrand often ignored, or publicly defied, the more centrist members of his party. But with his sights again set […]
Posted inHousing & Homelessness, Uncategorized, Westside Albuquerque
Smashing Pumpkins
This October the Estancia Rotary Club is kicking off fall the same way they have for 28 years: by launching pumpkins as far as they possibly can with mechanical devices. Families, community-serving groups, vendors, pie connoisseurs, slingshot engineers, travelers from around New Mexico and anyone looking to spend a cool afternoon outdoors will be gathered […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
He was ‘Mr. Walz’ to them, and they want D.C. to know he’s for real.
By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post (c) 2024 “Mr. Walz.” That’s who was on that big debate stage Tuesday night. “Mr. Walz built the set for my senior play,” Andrea Johnson, one of Gov. Tim Walz’s former high school students, told a crowd of about 150 people who gathered to watch the vice-presidential debate and […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
He was ‘Mr. Walz’ to them, and they want D.C. to know he’s for real.
By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post (c) 2024 “Mr. Walz.” That’s who was on that big debate stage Tuesday night. “Mr. Walz built the set for my senior play,” Andrea Johnson, one of Gov. Tim Walz’s former high school students, told a crowd of about 150 people who gathered to watch the vice-presidential debate and […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
Vance probably ‘won’ the debate. But Walz might have gained more.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 A lot of the conventional wisdom has it that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a better vice-presidential debate than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night. And instant post-debate polling suggests that’s more or less how swing voters saw it. But the same polling paints a […]