{"id":304951,"date":"2017-03-29T09:06:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=304951"},"modified":"2017-03-29T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:06:27","slug":"the-gold-standard-of-commentary-and-news-in-this-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/03\/the-gold-standard-of-commentary-and-news-in-this-state\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The gold standard of commentary and news in this state&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COMMENTARY:<\/strong> It is hard to find consistently accurate and believable reporting on issues that\u00a0impact our daily lives. Darned hard. Thanks to Heath Haussamen and his NMPolitics, I can be assured that I get the gold standard of commentary and news in this state.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58877\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58877\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hansen-Del.jpg\" alt=\"Del Hansen\" width=\"242\" height=\"282\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Courtesy photo<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Del Hansen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not only can I depend upon an unbiased and factual account of developing and recent stories, but the input and ideas of guest contributors brings a fresh perspective to the often soundbite-quality news we receive in other venues.<\/p>\n<p>Considering what one might spend on newspaper and magazine subscriptions, I count my contributions to NMPolitics.net and Mr. Haussamen as money well spent. I look forward to following the story lines of NMPolitics.net each and every day.<\/p>\n<p>I would encourage those who value quality reporting and clear, concise, and understandable treatment of newsworthy issues <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\">to monetarily support NMPolitics.net<\/a>. I know I do. We desperately need the civility and accuracy inherent in Heath\u2019s publications.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: NMPolitics.net is sharing\u00a0stories about why people support our work. Share yours by emailing Heath Haussamen at <a href=\"mailto:heath@haussamen.com\">heath@haussamen.com<\/a>. Donate by <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I count my contributions to NMPolitics.net and Mr. Haussamen as money well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[630],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-304951","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\/304951","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=304951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}