Julia Goldberg is the editor of The Santa Fe Reporter, an award-winning alternative newsweekly in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a contributor to the paper's new election-season blog, SwingStateOfMind.com

She also is the sole author of the blog, hiphopvoterproject.blogspot.com, named after a voter registration project she ran in 2004. She also serves on the editorial, diversity and membership committees for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Blog Entries by Julia Goldberg

Former US Attorney David Iglesias Featured in Esquire

Posted November 17, 2009 | 02:36 PM (EST)


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

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David Iglesias--the movie

Posted March 4, 2009 | 11:10 AM (EST)


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...

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SF Mayor Speaks Out

Posted October 3, 2008 | 05:38 PM (EST)


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 EspaƱola, Silver City and Santa Fe held simultaneously press conferences at noon today to discuss the impact of the economy on their individual...

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David Iglesias Feels 100 Percent Vindicated

Posted September 30, 2008 | 04:17 PM (EST)


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...

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Spearhead Politics

Posted September 30, 2008 | 02:01 PM (EST)


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...

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Bobby Duvall Says Election is a "Toss-Up"

Posted September 22, 2008 | 11:42 AM (EST)


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...

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Radio Station Questions Political Ads

Posted September 18, 2008 | 06:19 PM (EST)


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...

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Chasing Tom Udall

Posted May 17, 2008 | 05:39 PM (EST)


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...

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Candidates Mostly Ignore Project Vote Smart

Posted May 13, 2008 | 03:59 PM (EST)


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...

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Will The US Attorney Scandal Come Up In Heather Wilson's Race?

Posted May 1, 2008 | 05:45 PM (EST)


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...

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Political Postpartum: My Interview With Bill Richardson

Posted April 25, 2008 | 09:15 PM (EST)


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.

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