News Ninja

The News Ninja oversees research and writing for our culture division. He's a New Mexico native, a veteran, and holds a BA. He also has certifications in platform instruction, training, curriculum development, and tactical leadership.

Feds Raid Albuquerque and Santa Fe Over Pronoun Paperwork—While New Mexico Celebrates a Decade at 50th in Education

State media and school bureaucrats are treating a federal parental-rights probe like an invasion at Normandy. Nobody mentions we’re spending $36,859 per student at APS so 83% of high schoolers can fail math.

By News Ninja

/ 11 Nov 2026

Feds Raid Albuquerque and Santa Fe Over Pronoun Paperwork—While New Mexico Celebrates a Decade at 50th in Education

Score 1 for Parents, 0 for the Machine: Why Santa Fe Waited Until After the Election to Unlock School Choice

Every politician on the New Mexico ballot just spent the last six months campaigning on affordability and education. Yet the single most practical tool to help working parents afford better

By News Ninja

/ 10 Nov 2026

Score 1 for Parents, 0 for the Machine: Why Santa Fe Waited Until After the Election to Unlock School Choice

Santa Fe Brags About College Headcounts While AI Wipes Out the Degrees Taxpayers Cover

On Monday, October 26, the New Mexico Higher Education Department (NMHED) popped the champagne in Santa Fe, issuing a victory-lap press release celebrating a fifth consecutive year of statewide

By News Ninja

/ 1 Nov 2026

Santa Fe Brags About College Headcounts While AI Wipes Out the Degrees Taxpayers Cover

Reno: A Little Vegas, a Little Mountain Air, Plenty of Bad Ideas

If you want a taste of Las Vegas without committing to the full Las Vegas production, Reno deserves a look. Our three-day visit delivered casino action, quality food and

By News Ninja

/ 16 Oct 2026

Reno: A Little Vegas, a Little Mountain Air, Plenty of Bad Ideas

What the Hell Is the United Nations?

Every September, the world’s presidents, prime ministers, monarchs, motorcades and security details descend on Manhattan for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. They give speeches. They shake hands. They

By News Ninja

/ 1 Oct 2026

Football Has the Remote, but October Still Belongs to Baseball

The Weather Turns, and So Does Everybody’s Blood Pressure Football has arrived with its tailgates, fantasy spreadsheets, streaming passwords and one guy at every watch party explaining the kickoff

By News Ninja

/ 29 Sep 2026

Football Has the Remote, but October Still Belongs to Baseball

Roswell Is About to Get Loud: National Championship Air Races Return This Week. The Aliens Can Wait

Roswell has spent decades building a global reputation around unidentified things in the sky. This week, there will be no mystery about what New Mexicans are looking at. They will

By News Ninja

/ 14 Sep 2026

Roswell Is About to Get Loud: National Championship Air Races Return This Week. The Aliens Can Wait

The NFL Is Back, New Mexico: Find Your Passwords, Check the Time Zones, and Hydrate

The Hibernation Is Officially Over College football gave New Mexico a weekend hangover, and before anybody could locate the good remote or identify why the kitchen still smells like queso,

By News Ninja

/ 8 Sep 2026

The NFL Is Back, New Mexico: Find Your Passwords, Check the Time Zones, and Hydrate

Last Call for Shorts Weather: The Concerts, Fairs, and Festivals Left Before Fall Takes Over

The Fourth of July Is a Memory. The Coolers Are Still in the Garage. Labor Day weekend arrives with a certain finality to it. The kids are back in school.

By News Ninja

/ 4 Sep 2026

Last Call for Shorts Weather: The Concerts, Fairs, and Festivals Left Before Fall Takes Over

The Season Starts Three Times This Year, and Only One of Them Counts

Week Zero, Week 1, and everything New Mexico fans need before kickoff We told you back in the preview that the college football map looked like a raccoon drew it.

By News Ninja

/ 26 Aug 2026

The Season Starts Three Times This Year, and Only One of Them Counts

Who Pays for a 30% Discount? Inside a City-Owned Grocery Store — and What It Would Take Here

New York City is about to open a grocery store that can undercut every private grocer around it by nearly a third. It can do that because somebody else is

By News Ninja

/ 9 Aug 2026

Who Pays for a 30% Discount? Inside a City-Owned Grocery Store — and What It Would Take Here

Congressman Gabe Vasquez Called a Church "Extremist." The Archbishop Called for the Opposite.

New Mexico's archbishop told Catholics to stand beside a mosque. Three weeks later, the state's Catholic congressman called a Christian church "MAGA extremist." On

By News Ninja

/ 7 Aug 2026

Congressman Gabe Vasquez Called a Church "Extremist." The Archbishop Called for the Opposite.