Freelance writer extraordinaire, Laura Paskus, has a recently published piece in High Country News that delves deep into the drama surrounding New Mexico designating Mt. Taylor a traditional cultural property...

Props to SWOP for the heads up on this great discussion on Net Neutrality. If you're unsure about the term and what it means, watch this video to get a good understanding of the recent developments in the fight for a free and open Web. Video after the jump...

There is nothing wrong with hoping for a better future. There is nothing wrong with putting your faith in another person. It’s even okay to cast about for a prince (or princess) and to kiss a few frogs every once in a while. But progressives can no longer place the burden of hope on lawmakers while we each set ourselves on Auto Pilot, imagining someone else will rectify the problems our nation faces...

I don't see how we will ever recover our employment base, especially in terms of blue collar jobs, if we don't level the playing field by inserting strict labor provisions into our trade policies. Too many Democrats are good at merely paying lip service to labor and the union movement, but we need action, not more speeches once a year at Labor Day picnics...

We no longer have the luxury of labeling ourselves a “green” city or futzing about with vague plans and initiatives. Sacrifice and drought, a withering Southwest and reality checks are hardly the stuff of campaign rhetoric. But until the public demands that politicians and lawmakers plan for a warmer, drier valley, all of our children face bleak futures here in the valley...

Last Friday, Arthur Alpert, a regular columnist at the New Mexico Independent, took a break from from scrutinizing the Journal's habit of embedding their editorial slant into news coverage to give a well deserved kudos to the Journal's health business reporter, Winthrop Quigley...

Martin Heinrich (NM-01) and Ben Ray Lujan (NM-03) have said they strongly support a public option yet more and more people are wondering why they won't publicly commit to fight for a public option by making it crystal clear that they believe that any reform bill that lacks a public option is inadequate, unwise and unacceptable...

The Secretary of State's Office violated New Mexico Youth Organized constitutionally protected rights when it tried to force the nonprofit to register as a political action committee, according to a ruling by U.S. District Judge Judith C. Herrera...

V.B. Price had an excellent editorial in the New Mexico Independent today lauding the return, for many in this country, to personal financial restraint and responsibility. He says for far too long, people in this country have bought into the disastrous false reasoning that debt equals wealth. Price goes on to explain how this type of thinking is directly related to our natural resources and the way cities plan for growth...

Mayor Marty Chavez got a Journal headline this morning saying he wants 100 more police officers hired. It took him 7 years to hire the last 100, if they have even reached that number of 1100. Now, as an election year ploy he says more are needed...

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) responded quickly and with sharp criticism to Steve Pearce's announcement today that he'll run to recapture his previous seat in the U.S. House from New Mexico's Second Congressional District in 2010...