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.
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,
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.
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
From Stansbury's campaign trail photos to DNC leadership's pledges, national Democrats are getting cozy with the Democratic Socialists of America. New Mexico voters should read the
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.