Family death causes commissioner to miss his own public meetings
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People who showed up to a public meeting called by Doña Ana County Commissioner John Vasquez on Monday were surprised to find him absent. Continue Reading
Another Mexican journalist is gunned down
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Javier Valdez Cardenas is the sixth journalist murdered in Mexico since the beginning of the year. Continue Reading
The problems with the FBI’s email investigation went well beyond Comey
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Previously unreported judgments and misjudgments by FBI agents played a crucial role in the FBI director’s fateful decisions. Continue Reading
Can low-wage industries survive without immigrants and refugees?
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Case Farms’ history shows how many sectors like meatpacking depend on immigrants and refugees. Now business leaders fear President Trump’s policies will create a labor shortage. Continue Reading
Supreme Court tosses budget standoff back to legislators and governor
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The N.M. Supreme Court has rejected a petition from the Legislative Council that sought to overturn Gov. Susana Martinez’s vetoes of all funding for higher education and the Legislature. Continue Reading
Taking lawmakers’ retirement funds is unconstitutional, PERA says
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Gov. Susana Martinez’s proposal “is unconstitutional,” the director of the Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico says. Continue Reading
Battles for the heart and soul of El Paso
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Critical moments are at hand in the future of the important U.S-Mexico border city of El Paso, Texas. Continue Reading
Special session to start May 24, Martinez proclaims
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Democratic legislative leaders responded to the news with yawns. Continue Reading
Protesters confront Border Patrol agents at Las Cruces headquarters
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There were several tense moments during the protest, which ended peacefully and without any arrests or citations. Continue Reading
Governor’s new budget ‘agreement’ lacks agreement
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Many lawmakers were likely to see the governor’s new proposal as another assault on them, as they did when she vetoed all funding for the Legislature. Continue Reading
Layoffs hit Las Cruces Sun-News again; top editor resigns
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The Las Cruces Sun-News laid off three journalists and eliminated their positions on Wednesday, and the newspaper’s top editor voluntarily resigned. Continue Reading
NM elections characterized by high voter turnout
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Historically high voter turnout characterized New Mexico elections on Tuesday even as they went in opposite directions ideologically. Continue Reading
Expect long lines to vote in Tuesday’s Doña Ana Soil and Water Conservation District election
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The county clerk expects thousands of voters to turn out for the Doña Ana Soil and Water Conservation District election on Tuesday. Continue Reading
Can Trump really eliminate national monuments in NM and elsewhere?
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Maybe. Maybe not. But he could also try to shrink them, which U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce might like him to do to the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument around Las Cruces. Continue Reading
Carruthers says he’s confident NMSU will get its state funding
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“I’ve been in this arena, and these things always work themselves out,” Garrey Carruthers, NMSU’s chancellor and a former N.M. governor, wrote in his weekly message to the NMSU community. Continue Reading