Reid is the Editor-in-Chief and also leads our National and Financial Divisions. He's a proud New Mexico Native, a veteran, and holds a grad degree. He also has experience in executive leadership, mentorship, and organizational management.
For thousands of years, armies marched for kings, emperors, and plunder. On Veterans Day during America's 250th year, we celebrate the men and women who raised their right hand for an idea—and then came home to build the country.
Political insiders in Santa Fe know New Mexico isn't divided by race or geography. It is run by a Barbell Coalition of affluent government towns at the top and subsidy-dependent counties at the bottom—with private-sector families squeezed in the middle.
On Thursday, Governor-elect Deb Haaland posted a victory lap on X that accidentally exposed the central flaw in how she views leadership.
"My vision for a more affordable
Four Albuquerque neighborhood zones out-netted all 18 counties Gregg Hull won combined. Yet 21,286 metro Luján voters crossed over to Hull while 171,502 voters in New Mexico's 7 reddest counties stayed on the couch.
With all 2,204 precincts reporting, half of New Mexico's registered voters stayed on the couch, two metro counties generated 96% of the statewide margin, and voters rewarded Roundhouse politicians with a $68,000 salary.
New Mexico is sitting on a $75.8 billion sovereign wealth fund and an $11.2 billion annual general fund—yet 30 of our 33 counties remain poorer than the national average. Today's vote comes down to one choice: keep funding a broken model, or try something new.
For almost all of human history, nobody asked what you thought. As America marks 250 years and heads to the polls, it is worth remembering how faith, human reason, and a few stubborn rules created the fairest deal on earth.
First they stamped Genesis "extremist." Now New Mexico’s ruling party is lecturing churches on the Gospel while treating Christians like a scandal. The days of sitting quietly in the pew and taking it are over.
While 30 of 33 New Mexico counties sit below the national poverty line and our state bleeds hundreds of millions in Medicaid and SNAP mismanagement, our Democratic congresswomen are spending their political capital shielding Rep. Ilhan Omar and a billion-dollar Minnesota welfare racket.
Even Michigan’s former Democratic Party Chair told voters to leave the ballot blank rather than vote for Abdul El-Sayed. Yet Sen. Martin Heinrich just teamed up with Bernie Sanders to bail him out. Does Heinrich want this agenda in New Mexico?
Seven months ago, NM Madness started doing something New Mexico’s legacy press refused to do: pulling raw federal datasets, mapping all 33 counties, and putting the unvarnished numbers right
While 30 of 33 New Mexico counties drown in poverty and 32,000 local youth sit out of work, lawmakers quietly created a permanent agency to import foreign labor. Now the taxpayer bill just tripled.
