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.
New Mexico has the highest share of residents on SNAP in the country. Here's what that means for families, for taxpayers and for the corner store, and why the rules just changed.
New Mexico employers recruit engineers, programmers, teachers, doctors and scientists for jobs here. Meanwhile, 30 of 33 counties are poorer than the country around them. State leaders and major employers owe New Mexicans an explanation.
America’s official poverty rate has fallen to its lowest recorded level. New Mexico’s map still looks like a warning label.
The U.S. official poverty rate fell to
New Mexico has joined 21 other states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s revised “public charge” rule. The policy would allow immigration officers
A targeted recruitment package for certain professions may be legitimate. Calling taxpayer help with selected workers’ mortgages an affordability plan is not. Especially when New Mexico is short nearly 40,
Deb Haaland's two headline housing promises have both been tried. Neither has a success story anywhere in America — including here.
Deb Haaland's affordability agenda opens its
On Friday, four months from the end of her second term and in the middle of a run for lieutenant governor, State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard signed an executive
The Navajo Nation has secured federal approval for one of the most consequential energy decisions in modern New Mexico: a mining permit potentially opening 503 million tons of Navajo-owned
New Mexico's Democratic leadership discovered something remarkable in the Epstein scandal — the ability to move fast. The Legislature stood up a Truth Commission. Attorney General Raúl Torrez reopened
