This is a post by contributing writer, Stephen Jones, who is a progressive political activist and a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
There is an old saying in Democratic Party circles that goes, "I'd vote for a yellow dog if he ran on the Democratic ticket." This expression places party' [...]
Las Cruces City Hall (Photo by Heath Haussamen)
LAS CRUCES — When progressives took control of the Albuquerque City Council in the earlier part of this decade, ethics reform followed. Similarly, ethics reform gained momentum in state government when newly elected [...]
This is a post by contributing writer, Stephen Jones, who is a progressive political activist and a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Yesterday, some of us picked up our morning newspaper and learned that Steve Landerne, Executive Director of SpacePort America, was requesting from us, the tax-paying public of the [...]
This is a post by contributing writer, Stephen Jones, who is a progressive political activist and a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
On the hot summer day of August 31, 1910 Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech to a crowd of over 30,000 at Osawatomie, Kansas. The speech would become one [...]
From the New Mexico Alliance for Retired Americans:
Join us and spread the word about the roll-out of the NM ARA's Southern NM Community Action Team in Las Cruces this Friday, December 11.
NM ARA's Southern CAT organizer, Eva Lujan, and staffer Terry Schleder will host a video and update on [...]
The final campaign finance reports of the 2009 Las Cruces municipal election were filed earlier this week. The result? The candidates spent a combined $83,000 on the election.
Of course, there’s more. The Las Cruces Sun-News has the full story. The short of it? The controversial Jobs for Las [...]
The Las Cruces Sun-News, reporting on last month’s Las Cruces municipal elections, writes about the cost per vote that candidates paid. What is that cost? “Loosely translated, based on the 4,977 votes that were cast in the three City Council district races, those figures mean that the candidates raised [...]
This is a post by contributing writer, Stephen Jones, who is a progressive political activist and a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Late last summer we in New Mexico and West Texas opened our respective local newspapers and found the lurid headline, ‘THREE HEADS FOUND IN COOLER IN JAUREZ.’ This [...]
Las Cruces became on Monday the sixth city in New Mexico to restrict the use of cell phones while driving.
The city council, on a unanimous vote, set steep penalties – a fine of up to $500 and/or 90 days in jail – for violating the new ordinance, which takes effect [...]
It’s taken six months, but I’ve now profiled all four Republican candidates for governor.
I met with each when they made trips to Las Cruces and had time for an interview. The first interview, with Allen Weh, was in June. I met with Doug Turner in August, Janice Arnold-Jones in October [...]
This is a guest blog by Bob Hearn, a citizen who resides in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Health Care Reform, as Congress presents it to us, is incomprehensively complex and non-understandable. If you want to control things, that’s exactly the situation you would want to create. There are hundreds of lobbyists trying mostly [...]
From the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance: For the first time in southern New Mexico’s history, a conference is being held focused solely on the economic values of creating jobs from our protected public lands. “Wilderness Economics” is a joint collaboration between the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, [...]
This is a post by contributing writer, Stephen Jones, who is a progressive political activist and a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
I admit when I first arrived in New Mexico the romantic notion of a “Citizen Legislature” seemed quite attractive to me, particularly having spent so much time over [...]
Las Cruces City Council candidates Dolores Archuleta, Jim Harbison and Gil Jones, left to right, were all endorsed by the Building Industry Association of Southern New Mexico in this flyer. The organization’s director is also treasurer of the political committee that’s at the center of the complaint that" [...] Six years after the state repealed tax on groceries, lawmakers are looking at options to resurrect the tax in the face of our state budget deficit, The Santa Fe New Mexican reports .
The Las Cruces City Council is considering a ban on cell phone use while driving, [...]
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