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Post Offices in Rural N.M. on Chopping Block
So many things make people mad these days. We hate airline fees and sagging pants and the food pyramid ...
Twinkies, Zombies; Fighting Back at the AG’s Office
Attorney General Gary King has been the victim of innuendo, lies and personal or corporate agendas i
Regulating a Utility From High Altitude
When it comes to public policy, the view from 30,000 feet is always beautiful. Things are grittier at ground level. Two regulatory decisions this month involving Public Service Company of... Read more »
Lawyer Bills Costly Despite Losing Cases
What could you do with, say, half a million dollars? Sound good? Let’s make it more than half a million, shall we? It’s yours. Well, it was yours. But the... Read more »
Hot Dogs Talk Trash
I have tried – really, truly tried – to ignore Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal. First, while all the serious journalists out there pretend this breathlessly covered story is about morals... Read more »
AG Used Malott’s Signature
To some, the possible violations of federal election law might seem minor. To others, they might seem more significant because they involve state government’s chief lawyer, Attorney General Gary King.... Read more »
Should Young Killers Get Adult Justice?
They are monsters, the mothers said. Evil creatures who killed and would kill again if not locked away from society. “You take a life, you serve the time,” one mother... Read more »
History Takes a Lick on Route 66
“I never imagined living at a motel,” Phyllis Evans told me back in 1999 when I decided to drive the length of Route 66 in New Mexico and write about... Read more »
AG Discloses Records
The office of state Attorney General Gary King on Monday produced nearly 3,600 pages of documents related to two massive lawsuits alleging corruption in government investments. King’s office provided the... Read more »
Snowpack Buys Time On West’s Water Crisis
Last fall, Colorado River Basin water managers were watching Lake Mead, their largest storage reservoir, drop to record low levels and worrying about the looming possibility of the first shortage... Read more »
Fraternity Rape Case Dwindles Over the Years
While penning a column in April on the good deeds done by members of the Omega Delta Phi fraternity at the University of New Mexico, I wondered when a frat... Read more »
Hazy days, smoky skies
The sky at dusk is greenish gray, like the North Atlantic at its choppiest and most moody. Moments later, in the time it takes to walk away from the window... Read more »
