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An early September scene in downtown Truth or Consequences. NMPolitics.net recently took a deep look at T or C’s downtown economy.
Politics isn’t a sport. It’s serious business about how society governs itself — and how we, the people who make up that society, will come together to improve things.
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Our commitment to serious journalism is why we fight for government transparency, ethics and access. It’s why we devote time to exploring why people don’t vote — and what would encourage them to do it.
It’s why we invest in deep projects like our 2015 investigative report on a possible conflict of interest N.M. State Auditor Tim Keller had when he was a state senator, which won a national journalism award. And our 2016 feature about a multi-ethnic family that is working to make ends meet and get along in a complicated world, which also won a national award.
This year NMPolitics.net’s tiny newsroom — me and occasionally some freelancers — invested in bringing you a comprehensive investigation of Spaceport America and a deep look at the economy in downtown Truth or Consequences. In November we’ll publish an investigative report into the struggling behavioral health system in southern New Mexico, with a focus on how it can improve, in partnership with the Las Cruces Sun-News and KRWG Public Media.
We believe New Mexico can be better — and good journalism can help it get there. That takes a commitment to reporting on how government and other powerful systems impact people, on facilitating bridge-building discussions that grow understanding, and on treating politics as more important than a professional sporting event like the World Series.
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