After eight years and more than $200 million, Spaceport America still hasn’t taken off.

If government is truly to be for, by and of the people, then we should know what’s going on—and several lawmakers are trying to make sure that happens.

State Rep. W Kenneth Martinez, who is poised to become the second most powerful official in New Mexico next Tuesday, loves watching football games, especially when his youngest son, Agustin “Tino” Martinez, is on the field.

New Mexico needs jobs. The state has lost roughly 40,000 jobs over the past five years; last year, even as the rest of the country recovered, New Mexico lost another 4,800 jobs.

Brian Greer moved to Taos to ski, but he got hooked on another winter sport.

It’s Saturday night in Santa Fe and I’m out drinking. Closing time is approaching—it’s near 2 am—and I need to get home, but I have too much bourbon in my belly to drive.

On the corner of Ninita Street and St. Francis Drive is CG Higgins Confections—a veritable Taj Mahal of sweets, of which proprietor and namesake Chuck Higgins is the maharaja.

A few years ago in Santa Fe, after drinking in the dead of winter, Bill Short says his homeless friends “had to pull me down a hill, because I was passed out and would freeze to death.”

The recent death of former state House Speaker Ben Luján, D-Santa Fe, prompted multiple public visitations and memorials last week, including one in the Roundhouse rotunda.

As New Mexico moves forward with a federally mandated health insurance exchange, some state lawmakers are crying foul.