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I am doing a couple of interviews this week to provide a Republican perspective on New Mexico politics in 2024. That might seem amusing to some of you who perceive […]

New Mexico’s primary election is a few weeks away, on June 4. As attentive voters know, in New Mexico the primary election is at least as important as the general. […]

In history we find things that make us feel uncomfortable, said Jon Ghahate, a Laguna and Zuni pueblo educator. “Sometimes it’s very challenging. For New Mexico it’s embedded in everything […]

So it’s been a pretty exciting week in Washington. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s legislative package for the most part passed on a bipartisan vote, with the exception of […]

In the U. S. there is something called the polling industrial complex. It’s a description of how polling has changed over 50 years. It has grown and become more complex […]

Wesley Billingsley will soon be able to say, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” He will tackle one of the most stubborn problems in state government. Billingsley […]

There’s nothing like a road trip to make you appreciate another mode of transportation – trains. They keep motorists company along many a New Mexico highway. Before we left the […]

Most of us have never heard of independent medical examinations. We might need to know a little more about them.  An independent medical examination (IME) is an exam performed when […]

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, trying to simultaneously do the right thing, not trigger former President/current GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, and keep Congressional howler monkey Marjorie Taylor Greene […]

Two New Mexico political groups are using opposite tactics to reach a common goal—elect Democrats. While the West Side Democrats in Albuquerque focuses on personal activism, Blue CD2 New Mexico […]