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Jim Collie of Albuquerque and the others who donated last week gave a combined $1,880, or just over 10 percent of the $18,000 I’m trying to raise by April 30 so I can hire a reporter. Join them! Click on the headline to make a donation. Continue Reading
As long as lawmakers refuse to webcast and archive all their proceedings, the governor and others will do it for them. And those others will be champions of open government, while legislators will continue to look like they have something to hide. Continue Reading
I intend to add another journalist with his or her own skills and passions to NMPolitics.net’s reporting staff, but I need your help to make it happen. This year’s fundraising drive begins today, and I’m trying to raise $18,000. Click on the headline to make a donation! Continue Reading
Hanging photos of foster children who are up for adoption in the halls of the Roundhouse would be a powerful statement about the priorities of state government. I hope the legislative branch changes its mind and grants the governor’s request to do it. Continue Reading
To earn the public’s trust, Mitt Romney must demonstrate a commitment to openness. Between his efforts to keep records from his time as governor secret and his wishy-washy and flip-floppy statements on releasing tax returns, he hasn’t done it yet. Continue Reading
Congress is considering legislation that could be used to place hurdles in front of people’s First Amendment rights. While protecting intellectual property rights is a worthy goal, this legislation is not the way to do it. Continue Reading
House Majority Whip Sheryl Williams Stapleton’s recent racial slur directed at Gov. Susana Martinez is disappointing, but so is the political and journalistic gotcha game that has resulted. Continue Reading
Former Las Cruces Mayor Bill Mattiace’s donation of campaign funds to help pay for a funeral demonstrates the need for campaign finance and other ethics reform in city government. It’s time for action. Continue Reading
We have so many problems in New Mexico, but we also have so much potential. Here’s to hoping that, during our 200th year of statehood, we look back at the time when New Mexico was near the bottom of every positive list as a thing of the past. Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s announcement that he’s retiring tops the list, but 2011 will also be remembered for lots of scandal and corruption, some interesting dynamics in the Roundhouse, and the rise of the Occupy movement. Continue Reading
I’ve been meaning for awhile to urge you all to donate to a cause you deem worthy during this holiday season, if you can afford it. Here are a few of my favorite New Mexico charities and nonprofits. Continue Reading
Civil liberties are the foundation of our democracy. In the debate over whether our military should be able to detain Americans without charge or trial, we must err on the side of protecting our due process rights, and protecting ourselves from our government. Continue Reading
Barb Wold exemplified something significant I recently wrote about – the use of the Internet to organize and usher in a new era of democracy. Continue Reading
Until government is redesigned to truly separate it from profiteering special interests, people will view the Downs at Albuquerque deal and any other involving campaign contributors and party insiders with suspicion, as they should. Continue Reading
The chief justice of the N.M. Supreme Court says he’s determined to improve public access to state court records by making them available online. Continue Reading