The Duke leads research and writing for our State News division. He hails from New Mexico, is a veteran, and holds a masters degree. He also has a background in leadership, talent management, human resources, and strategic planning.
Deb Haaland’s Chaco decision was sold as protection, but the full New Mexico story is more complicated: tribal division, unresolved ethics questions, activism ties, and real concern over future energy jobs and revenues.
Santa Fe turned a Walmart-sized land negotiation into another performative anti-border tantrum — and may still lose the land anyway.
Seven acres. That is the fight. Not some vast ranchland empire.
Andrew Yang’s Forward Party brings some respectable reform ideas to New Mexico. But slogans and process talk are not enough in a state shaped by border pressure, military power,
Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and the Albuquerque Journal already gave the public the number that should stop everyone cold: 851. That is how many English-as-a-second-language students reportedly left APS between
Remember mandatory COVID vaccines and masks? She has a healthcare plan now and it's loaded for the uninsured on your dime.
Deb Haaland’s healthcare agenda is being
New Mexico leaders love to talk about rural health care, education, and economic opportunity. Yet in 2026, too many rural families still do not have reliable high-speed internet, and some
Bruce Springsteen is still free to say whatever he wants onstage. Americans are just as free to decide they are done being lectured by a billionaire entertainer who got rich
This Is Public Policy, Not Rumor
New Mexicans deserve a straight answer: yes, their tax dollars help fund education for people who are in the country unlawfully.1 In K-12,
President Donald Trump just launched a new federal anti-fraud push that may get almost no attention in New Mexico, and that would be a mistake.¹ The White House order created
If you drive near the Roundhouse in Santa Fe this Saturday, you will see the crowds. The downtown streets might be blocked, the bullhorns will be loud, and the cardboard
To the men and women of CBP’s El Paso Sector and federal law enforcement nationwide: you are delivering. Since the current administration took over, your work has produced numbers
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A bombshell investigation published this week by The Daily Wire has exposed what critics are calling a coordinated effort to rig the science used by
