On Dec. 15, 2011, Pat Rogers, the prominent Modrall Sperling lawyer and lobbyist, sent an email to the private account of Gov. Susana Martinez’ chief of staff, Keith Gardner, thanking Gardner for agreeing to set up a meeting with Martinez on behalf of one of his firm’s clients.

Last week, Gov. Susana Martinez scored points with transparency advocates when her office, after being told by a district judge to remove public employee names and salaries from the state’s Sunshine Portal, posted them on a different web page. It’s an example of her follow-through on a key campaign promise: to make state government open and accessible to the public.

On Monday, Aug. 13, a local named Sam Atakra created* a Facebook event titled “Public Meeting with OTAB about ‘Diminishing Nightlife,’” kicking off a lengthy, impassioned Facebook forum on all things nightlife.

’Twas four months before Christmas, and all through the town, holiday cheer was nonexistent, which made me feel down. Suddenly, out by the office dumpster, there arose such a clatter that staff writer Justin Horwath and I arose to see what was the matter. Then what to our wondering eyes should appear, but a fake Christmas tree—seven feet tall—with lights, a star, ornaments and all.

On the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, anti-nuclear organizations and concerned citizens staged a large protest of nuclear development in Los Alamos.

This November, voters will weigh in on five amendments to the state Constitution, all of which would reshape state government.

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but Virgin Galactic’s new partnership to mine asteroids in space might be less far-fetched than it seems.

Jefferson Byrd, the Republican candidate hoping to dethrone incumbent Democrat Ben Ray Luján from his US House seat, is going to light up like a prairie fire.

By a variety of measures—graduation rates, reading proficiency, standardized test scores—Santa Fe Public Schools are failing. But Joel Boyd, the district’s new superintendent, has a plan to turn that around.

As I stand in the small parking lot behind Positive Energy’s solar electric systems on a recent Friday morning, I begin to feel guilty about laughing as hard as I am.