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New Mexico gerrymandering trial concludes, judge has a week to rule on congressional maps
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA southeast New Mexico district judge has a week to decide if the state’s redrawn congressional...
Bill Richardson, a former governor and U.N. ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies
Politico via Yahoo News· 8 months agoBill Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico and a U.S. ambassador to the United...
OPINION: Watergate was no boon for New Mexico's investigating senator
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 8—The Watergate scandal that began 50 summers ago crushed many a Republican. It also helped do in one Democrat, a local no less. That listless fellow was U.S. Sen. Joseph Montoya, the only ...
2023: New Year, same cast?
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMaybe it’s my age. I used to say, “this year can’t be any worse.” I now understand that loss and disappointment are inevitable as life unfolds, and our...
'The Fall Guy,' Albert Bacon Fall led colorful political life
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe headline on the front page of the Feb. 14, 1924, El Paso Times read: MILLION DOLLAR OIL SCANDAL...
Judge tosses parts of NM campaign finance law
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAug. 17—A top federal judge in New Mexico has struck down as unconstitutional New Mexico's limits on how much state political parties can contribute to political candidates and local political ...
100 years ago, a former Iowan exposed the nation’s biggest political scandal
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA century ago, a native Iowan seized America’s attention by blowing the lid off the Teapot Dome...
Former high-ranking Democratic legislator in New Mexico pleads not guilty in federal fraud case
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA former high-ranking Democratic legislator in New Mexico has pleaded not guilty to numerous federal charges stemming from a corruption investigation into allegations that millions of dollars ...
OPINION: It might have taken a rocket scientist to beat Heinrich
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 28—Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich looks safe. He won't have to run for reelection against a rocket scientist. I speak of Ant Thornton, who holds a Ph.D. from the School of Aeronautics ...
Former New Mexico governor remembered as 'a great public servant'
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSep. 2—Bill Richardson had an outsize handshake and jovial smile — the kind that could calm foreign despots, disarm local political enemies, soothe wary voters. That trademark ability to connect ...
