New Mexico Modernizes Oil, Gas Industry Bonding, Cleanup Rules, Now Among Nation’s Strongest 
Medicaid Trust Fund Gets Close to $1 Billion Windfall. It’s Time for a Plan to Boost DDSD and Elder Caregiver Salaries 
Three Wildland Firefighters Killed in Colorado Blaze. “It’s devastating for the wildland firefighting community.” 
Salary Surfing, Pension Boost, and Revolving Door for DOH CFO Retiring; Returning Next Day as Contract Employee 
In More States, Older People Outnumber Children – Including in New Mexico 
Supreme Court Delivers a Victory for Pesticide Companies Over Cancer Claims 
CDC Activates Emergency Operations Center for New World Screwworm Response Democrats, YOU Won … So WTF?
Joe Monahan has been covering New Mexico’s political and governance scenes since, well for a…
Why We Started Grow New Mexico – Guest OpEd
By Terry Brunner and Phil Schiliro New Mexico is already one of the best places…
Recreational Pot survives first ‘hit’ …
After a long Saturday afternoon hearing, attended by many from the public, the House Consumer…
Nothing FOG-gy about stand of new Director of Foundation For Open Government.
“As FOG’s new director, I intend to advocate as fiercely for the principles embodied in…
Here we go again … New Mexico job growth 3rd worst in Nation.
Another New Mexico hardship … The land of enchantment measured third “worst” of all states…
House Republicans piddling around while New Mexico slides deeper into the abyss.
Historians write that when Rome was burning, Nero fiddled. Chroniclers of New Mexico’s early 21st…
Not ready for prime time Democratic jobs and economic plan?
Much hullabaloo was made by Democratic staffers about House and Senate plans to lift New…
Trump Administration to prime the Augustin Plains Ranch pump?
Like a shot out of a water cannon, the controversial Augustin Plains Ranch (APR) proposal…
Hemp. What is it good for? Absolutely Everything! (Well, almost.)
Later this morning the first hearing for one of several bills to legalize the…
Have Democrats boxed themselves into advancing Governor’s agenda – cuts, sweeps, and more cuts?
The Democrats in the New Mexico Legislature need to start thinking outside the box the…
Will Republicans take new House leaders to the woodshed?
The New Mexico House Democratic leadership seems poised to get a bit of an ole…
Smoke and Mirrors?
Democrats in New Mexico won back the House – Period. Now they need to start…
Is it too late to bring Lucky out of retirement?
Maybe the House Democrats just need a strong pep talk … Joe Monahan wrote this…
Is he, or isn’t he looking at statewide run in 2018? Sam Bregman answers “No comment.”
Attorney Sam Bregman, the former chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party, spent some time…
Not a bad burger, but is it Fair Trade?
Dateline: Santa Fe, The City Indifferent? Here’s a story that has not totally been vetted yet,…