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Clarification to the article, ‘What you need to know about NM’s newest fight over driver’s licenses’

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | January 7, 2016

This article originally reported that if state political leaders didn’t agree to a compromise by Sunday, New Mexico licenses would not get people into nuclear power plants, military bases, and other federal facilities that require identification. That’s apparently not accurate. Continue Reading

Money

National liberal groups to push ‘record’ number of ballot measures in 2016

By Liz Essley Whyte, Center for Public Integrity | January 7, 2016

Their efforts to circumvent legislative logjams, using a top-down approach, run counter to the grassroots origins of the ballot initiative process. Continue Reading

Handgun

How much could Obama’s gun moves affect gun violence? Nobody knows.

By Lois Beckett, ProPublica | January 6, 2016

The actions are extremely modest, raising questions about how much they will really do to stem gun violence. Continue Reading

Gary Johnson

Former Gov. Johnson running for president again

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | January 6, 2016

Former Gov. Gary Johnson, the 2012 Libertarian Party nominee for president, announced today that he’s running for president again this year. Continue Reading

Former Gov. Bill Richardson

Richardson cited in car accident in Santa Fe

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | January 6, 2016

Former Gov. Bill Richardson has been cited in an automobile accident in Santa Fe, The Santa Fe New Mexican is reporting. Continue Reading

Move political participation from online forums into action

By Gabriel Barrio | January 6, 2016

We need to enter into a dialogue with neighbors in hopes to achieve a bipartisan society and political process. Continue Reading

A statue outside the Roundhouse in Santa Fe.

What you need to know about NM’s newest fight over driver’s licenses

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | January 5, 2016

Federal officials have set a Sunday deadline for state political leaders to agree to a compromise that brings New Mexico driver’s licenses into compliance with the REAL ID Act. Continue Reading

Voting

It’s candidate filing day in many NM cities and towns

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | January 5, 2016

Hobbs, Rio Rancho, Taos, Farmington, Santa Fe and four towns in Doña Ana County are among those holding elections on March 1. Continue Reading

Rick Lass

It’s time to clarify in the Constitution that corporations aren’t people

By Rick Lass | January 4, 2016

I think it is time for ‘We the people’ to tell the Supremes they got it wrong — the only way we can. Continue Reading

Handgun

We must discuss guns without rancor

By Jerry Nachison and Roberta Gran | January 4, 2016

We must bring our communities together to address this issue. Continue Reading

‘Somebody intervened in Washington’

By Alec MacGillis, ProPublica | January 3, 2016

How oil industry lobbyists played the long game — wearing down an overmatched federal bureaucracy to gain access to a fuel-rich corner of the Alaskan wilderness. Continue Reading

Gold King Mine spill

NMPolitics.net’s 10 most-read posts in 2015

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | January 1, 2016

From the Navajo Nation to Hobbs, from Las Cruces to Albuquerque and Santa Fe — in other words, all over New Mexico — people read NMPolitics.net’s articles and joined our discussions last year. Continue Reading

Heath Haussamen

What a year it’s been!

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | December 31, 2015

I’m so grateful that you’ve come along on our journey this year! I’d like to share with you a few things I learned. Continue Reading

City Hall in Hobbs, N.M.

Hobbs manager cashes in paid time off to ring in the New Year

By Byron Marshall | December 30, 2015

Hobbs City Manager J.J. Murphy has turned his public-service employer into a personal money machine, with the consistently unquestioning consent of Hobbs city commissioners and our mayor. Continue Reading

Are we at a tipping point to invert the pyramid?

By Dianne Goodman | December 30, 2015

Here are some examples of leaders, citizens and those in the media who are implementing the shift of inverting the pyramid. Continue Reading

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