KUNM, New Mexico's public radio station, has been soliciting "State of the State" commentaries, following Gov. Bill Richardson's last State of the State address to the New Mexico Legislature last month.
Mine aired Feb. 12, and proposes a 12-step program for the state to deal with its addiction to...

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Former US Attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias, is featured in the most recent Esquire Magazine's Best and...

It's never been entirely clear to me if Tom Cruise's character in A Few Good Men was really based on former US Attorney David Iglesias (a US naval reservist, recently appointed to serve on a special prosecution team for Guantanamo detainees), or if that's just urban legend. But a documentary...

The Democratic Party of New Mexico decided to follow the VP debates with a statewide event titled "Mayors Speak Out," in which the mayors of Española, Silver City and Santa Fe held simultaneously press conferences at noon today to discuss the impact of the economy on their individual...

On Monday, Sept. 29, the long-awaited report from the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General on the 2006 firings of nine US attorneys was finally released. This report has been long in coming ; New Mexico's fired US Attorney, David Iglesias, told me last year that the...

Michael Franti and Spearhead were scheduled to perform in Santa Fe, New Mexico the same night (Sept. 26) as the presidential debates. So Jamie Lenfestey of Fan Man Productions decided that, if Franti approved, he'd show the debate on a screen over the stage before Franti played. For the...

Sadly, that's about the sum total of what I got off Robert Duvall at a dinner event at New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's mansion Sept. 21. I should have been able to do better, given that I was actually seated at Duvall's table, but, as has been proven to me...

On Monday, Sept. 15, the McCain campaign began running ads, nearly every hour, on Santa Fe, New Mexico radio station KBAC (98.1 FM) .
So Ira Gordon, operations manager for Hutton Broadcasting (which runs KBAC along with several other local stations) began running an editorial directly after the...

When I got the press release that US Rep. Tom Udall, D-NM, would be early voting at 2:30 pm, Saturday, May 17 at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, I decided to gamble that most reporters would be too busy having lives to show up and that, perhaps, I would be...

A recent press release from Project Vote Smart, a national research organization caught my eye because it was titled "New Mexico candidates stonewall public on basic issue positions."

That's one way of looking at it.

PVS' site is worth checking out. It includes lots of candidate bios, campaign...

After The Senate Ethics Panel criticized US Sen. Pete Domenici for his inappropriate phone call to former US Attorney David Iglesias , it kind of seemed--at least to me--that the time was ripe for US Rep. Steve Pearce, R-NM, to bring up the issue as it relates...

Bill Richardson is in his second term as New Mexico's governor. In January, he ended his bid for the Democratic nomination for US president.

JG: I like your beard.
BR: Well, thank you. I'm going to have it on probably another month and then get it off.