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.
If you scrolled past the Albuquerque Journal or read Taxation and Revenue Secretary Stephanie Schardin Clarke’s recent victory lap, you might think New Mexico just pulled off an economic
In New Mexico’s poorest counties, where poverty tops 28% to 33% and 56% of voters stayed home Tuesday, families need jobs and lower prices. Instead, their D.C. reps spent Friday whining about Trump.
On Tuesday night, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez coasted to reelection on a carefully polished narrative: he is the fearless crusader holding giant institutions accountable.
All year, Torrez has
Public records show collaboration involving all five members, including a nuclear-security workforce letter. We are asking the delegation to explain the boundaries of that work and whether appropriate security reviews occurred.
New Mexico’s sovereign wealth fund—now standing at nearly $75 billion thanks to oil and gas royalties—is the financial engine keeping our public schools, universities, and state budget
If Deb Haaland were running for governor in 2004, she would probably promise to rescue rural New Mexico by opening a state-funded Blockbuster Video in every county seat.
Instead,
New Mexico does not need embellishing. We rank first in the nation in property crime, second in violent crime, first in alcohol-related deaths, and first in the country for
New Mexico voters are being asked once again to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in statewide debt under the comforting banner of “higher education.”
On the surface, the campaign
UNM cannot claim a statewide footprint when it wants credit and retreat to a campus-sized footprint when it faces criticism.
When the university counts jobs, degrees, and payroll, its
Five recipes identifying Elizabeth Warren as Cherokee. A professional record identifying her as American Indian. Thirty-five years between the cookbook and a public apology. Now Haaland is again putting her political credibility behind Warren.
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández demands accountability from law enforcement officers. Her recent public rhetoric gives too little consideration to the officers themselves—or the laws they are charged with enforcing.
