Krista Robbins begins her mornings in her backyard with her coffee tucked in one hand and her medicine in the other. Her body shakes—the sign of an oncoming anxiety attack—but she says three or four puffs of medical marijuana are enough to curb her symptoms for the next four to five hours.

On April 2, Gov. Susana Martinez received a $2,500 contribution from a little-known company called Double V Production, LLC. Based in Hobbs, the company was registered with New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission by Scotty Holloman, an attorney in the dusty, southern oil city that borders Texas. Though it’s properly registered with the state, Hobbs city and Lea County officials maintain they have no record of Double V Production’s existence.

Nature-lovers are familiar with the classic, conservationist coffee-table book: Usually, it’s full of Aldo Leopold quotes and scenic, if sometimes static, photos of mountains and rivers and meadows full of [insert endangered mammal here].

Appropriately, it was a cat-and-doggish evening last Saturday, when actor Rainn Wilson graced SFUAD’s Forum to introduce a special presentation of Education Under Fire, a documentary that explores the educational plight of Iran’s Bahá’í population. The largest religious minority there, members of what Wilson refers to as “the faith with the weird name” have not been allowed to attend university since the Islamic Revolution—and so, in 1987, the ballsy and very DL Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education, which the doc revolves around, was born.

Dave Heft knows how critical health insurance is. He is, after all, enrolling in Santa Fe Community College’s nursing program. That’s why he’s at Molina Medical Clinic, a local fee-for-service provider where 43 percent of patients pay with cash. Nursing students must obtain vaccinations so they can enter clinical settings, and he’s patiently sitting in the waiting room, contemplating his future as a nurse with health insurance. But that’s a long way off, and Heft has gone without it for the past year. As with many New Mexicans, health insurance is a luxury his $13-per-hour waiter position won’t support.

For the past three weeks, revelations that staffers in Gov. Susana Martinez’ office were using private email addresses to discuss state policy have hit the headlines, alarming open-government advocates and giving liberals ammunition to lob at the Republican administration and its top-level advisor, Jay McCleskey.

Reactions around New Mexico to the June 29 US Supreme Court decision upholding most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) followed predictable partisan lines.

To be perfectly honest, before I began researching this story, I hadn’t really thought about how the rest of the world views the LGBTQ community. In Santa Fe, it’s easy to be complacent about LGBTQ equality (with one big exception: marriage). But thanks to a pair of Santa Feans prepared to take on the world, I quickly learned that the wardrobe creativity and convivial dance parties that characterize Santa Fe Pride are hardly the norm.

Three years after allegations of fraud first surfaced at the New Mexico Department of Health, the state’s second-largest agency is still dealing with the aftermath.

A 10-year-old girl walks into her home, where her young Hispanic parents greet her. The conversation soon turns to voting. “¿Papá, tú votas?” she asks. (Dad, do you vote?) “¡Sí! Pero sólo para las personas buenas!” he replies. (Yes! But only for the right people!)