What began as a simple records request eight months ago could now cost the state tens of thousands of dollars, according to a letter sent by the Attorney General’s Office last week.

Sexual assault remains a complex and underreported problem in New Mexico.

Wintertime in Santa Fe is fickle these days.

For seven years, Bernadette Rodriguez spent her days reviewing claims from disabled people across the state. It was her job to help decide whether they qualified for Social Security benefits.

At a recent hearing of the state Senate’s Public Affairs Committee, David Olson stood up from the audience and played a phone conversation he had secretly taped. The eight-member committee fell silent, straining to hear an angry voice saying he was the father of Olson’s biological child and telling Olson, “Fuck you, motherfucker.”

“I have not signed a single marriage certificate since I’ve been here, and I won’t—until I can do that for any couple in my congregation that chooses to marry.”

On Tuesday, Feb. 5, Santa Fe voters will have the opportunity to elect two new members to Santa Fe Public Schools’ Board of Education.

The recent revelation that New Mexico hasn’t been living up to its share of a federal special education formula has prompted outrage among some state lawmakers. But even more troubling, they say, is how the Public Education Department left state them in the dark about the problem in the first place.

Many of us didn’t know much about Mali until a few weeks ago. Some of us still don’t. Hell, my cousin was a Peace Corps volunteer there, and all I really knew was that it was huge and hot, with uncommonly friendly people.

Last week, Gov. Susana Martinez kicked off the 2013 legislative session with her third “State of the State” speech. Many of the themes were so familiar—education, jobs, taxes, etc.—that SFR decided to compare them to her 2012 speech via word cloud, a graphic that sizes words according to how often they appear.