{"id":112835,"date":"2016-01-01T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T23:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=112835"},"modified":"2016-01-03T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T19:37:57","slug":"nmpolitics-nets-10-most-read-posts-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/01\/nmpolitics-nets-10-most-read-posts-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"NMPolitics.net’s 10 most-read posts in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two of NMPolitics.net’s 10 most-read posts in 2015\u00a0— including No. 1 — were about the fallout from the August spill of millions of gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River in the Four Corners region.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0year. Here’s a rundown of the 10 most-read posts\u00a0in 2015:<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Feds subpoena records from Martinez\u2019s tenure as DA<\/a><\/h3>\n

Dec. 20\u00a0\u2022 <\/em>A federal grand jury subpoenaed documents from the district attorney\u2019s office in Do\u00f1a Ana County from 2010, when now-Gov. Susana Martinez was the DA. Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0NM\u2019s Sen. Sanchez thanks Haley for Confederate flag stance<\/a><\/h3>\n

June 23\u00a0\u2022 <\/em>New Mexico Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez crossed party lines to thank South Carolina\u2019s governor for seeking the removal of the Confederate flag that flies atop the statehouse there.\u00a0Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Navajos refuse \u2018tainted\u2019 water from EPA; \u2018crops are getting thirsty\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n

Aug. 18\u00a0\u2022 <\/em>Farmers on the Navajo Nation had serious\u00a0problems in the wake of the August spill of millions of gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River.\u00a0Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Auditor Keller should stop using Gmail for public business<\/a><\/h3>\n

Aug. 12\u00a0\u2022 <\/em>COMMENTARY \u2022 Using a private email account \u2013 especially when you also have a government account, as Tim Keller does\u00a0\u2013 creates the appearance that you are trying to hide something, Heath Haussamen wrote. Keller later stopped using the private account for public business, his office said.\u00a0Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0NM secretary of state charged with fraud, embezzlement, money laundering<\/a><\/h3>\n

Aug. 28\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<\/em>New Mexico\u2019s attorney general formally accused Secretary of State Dianna Duran of fraud, embezzlement and money laundering in a 64-count criminal complaint alleging Duran improperly used campaign funds for personal gambling.\u00a0Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Public Education Department chose to deceive<\/a><\/h3>\n

July 6 \u2022\u00a0<\/em>COMMENTARY \u2022 The Martinez Administration’s claim that an old evaluation system rated 99.8 percent of teachers\u00a0as\u00a0satisfactory\u00a0could not be supported by facts, the National Education Association’s Charles Goodmacher wrote.\u00a0Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Hobbs manager cashes in paid time off to ring in the New Year<\/a><\/h3>\n

Dec. 30<\/em> \u2022 COMMENTARY \u2022 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 the\u00a0mayor, Byron Marshall wrote.\u00a0Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Dianna Duran resigns, pleads guilty to two felonies<\/a><\/h3>\n

Oct. 23\u00a0\u2022 <\/em>NMPolitics.net\u00a0broke the news that\u00a0Dianna Duran resigned from her position as New Mexico\u2019s secretary of state and entered into a plea agreement that had her admitting to two felonies related to abusing the state\u2019s campaign finance reporting system.\u00a0Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Hobbs manager\u2019s contract evolution exposes sense of entitlement<\/a><\/h3>\n

July 2\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<\/em>COMMENTARY \u2022 Before the Hobbs City Commission voted on whether to amend\u00a0Manager J.J. Murphy’s\u00a0contract yet again, Jeanie Coates wrote that reviewing his contract\u2019s chronology in total was\u00a0importantly informative.\u00a0Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Officials pledge to \u2018make the EPA pay\u2019 for Animas River spill<\/a><\/h3>\n

Aug.\u00a09 \u2022 <\/em>Government officials from New Mexico and the Navajo Nation were among those working in August\u00a0to try to understand and respond to the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s inadvertent triggering of the spill of millions of\u00a0gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River.\u00a0Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[630],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-112835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-about-nmpolitics-net","tag-news-about-this-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}