{"id":169134,"date":"2016-07-15T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T18:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=169134"},"modified":"2016-07-16T23:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T05:32:18","slug":"why-i-do-this-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/07\/why-i-do-this-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I do this work"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been working hard lately to shine light on budget cuts\u00a0at New Mexico State University<\/a> and\u00a0arsenic in the water in Sunland Park<\/a>. We’re fighting in court for greater transparency\u00a0from the City of Las Cruces<\/a>. We’re facilitating an ongoing debate about gun deaths in America<\/a>.\u00a0And we continue to keep an eye on state government<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every one of those stories and issues is important. But there’s so much more to do.<\/p>\n

\"Heath

Heath Haussamen<\/p><\/div>\n

I stay in journalism even though it’s financially difficult\u00a0because I care about bettering our state. I grew up here. I’m raising my daughter here. I don’t accept that we’re near the bottom of all the important lists. If my daughter wants to leave New Mexico someday, that’s fine — but I don’t want her to feel like she has to leave because the jobs are elsewhere.<\/p>\n

I’m tired of New Mexico outsourcing our kids. I believe good journalism will help us figure out how to do better.<\/p>\n

NMPolitics.net needs your help to continue this important work.\u00a0Will you make a one-time donation<\/a> of $25, $50, $100 or another amount today? You can also sign up to make\u00a0automatic, monthly contributions<\/a> to help sustain our work.<\/p>\n

NMPolitics.net recently won a first-place award in a national investigative reporting contest<\/a> for\u00a0shining light on a possible conflict of interest<\/a> current N.M. State Auditor Tim Keller had when he was a state senator. The reporting brought attention to the Legislature’s structural flaws that encourage conflicts of interest. It’s that kind of journalism — reporting that looks at structural issues and helps us think more deeply than the usual political narratives and bickering — that I believe can help spark real change.<\/p>\n

Thank you for valuing that type of journalism! With your\u00a0continued support<\/a>, I’ll keep doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m tired of New Mexico outsourcing our kids. I believe good journalism will help us figure out how to do better. And I need your help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[630],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-169134","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\/169134","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=169134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}