What's next for the federal government's chief waster of time? Will he set his sights on San Antonio, N.M.? Little San Antone was the hometown of the late hotel tycoon Conrad Hilton. An initiative to rename this speck on the map as Connie's Corner or Hilt... See more
State Rep. Matthew McQueen received 33% of the vote in losing the Democratic primary for state land commissioner. But the general election in November will bring a notable victory for McQueen, even though he didn't make the ballot. He is the anonymous aut... See more
Republicans might as well have Mr. X or another masked man running for attorney general of New Mexico. Their candidate, Sam Kane, is so furtive he didn't bother surfacing when his Democratic opponent exhibited partisanship in a case of government malfeasa... See more
State Rep. Andrea Romero got off easy. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez could have prosecuted her for accepting a state job in violation of the law. Instead, Romero’s punishment for violating a clearly written statute was light. With a nudge from T... See more
His formal education ended in the sixth grade. This was not an obstacle for boys who aspired to become newspapermen in the early 1900s. As a teenager he was writing for the old Pueblo Evening Post in Colorado. A typesetter misspelled the lad's byline. The... See more