This summer, Block’s life began to unravel again with another series of absurd, but completely plausible, allegations of malfeasance. Of them, the most disgusting is evidence indicating Block may have improperly charged thousands of dollars to government credit cards.

 I’d quit my job as a reporter covering state government in Phoenix two weeks before.  The morning of 9.11, a girl I was seeing called to wake me. She said we were under attack.

Adam Kokesh, the Republican candidate for New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District seat—currently held by Democratic US Rep. Ben Ray Luján—is picking up support from Truthers, Birthers, Deathers and Tea Partiers, whose affiliations run the gamut from disenchanted Democrats to white supremacists.

Updates on the the flat spot left in the wake churned up by the Zocalo auctions and on Fed Ex NOT shipping dirty bombs.

New Mexico's video gaming industry and its...future?

On Oct. 25, International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors will get their first tour of Iran's new nuclear facility. Over the last two months, domestic nuclear inspectors have issued several reports regarding radiological incidents and administrative shortcomings in New Mexico. Though officials downplay the extent of the problems, the reports are startling.

The resurgence of cattlemen and wildcatters.

As grim as the media landscape may seem, New Mexico’s online and nonprofit media—mere bean sprouts by comparison—are actually expanding. Still, it’s too earlier to tell if they will grow large enough to support this tree house we call democracy.

The economy as seen through the lens of an animal shelter.

Although the New Mexico Legislature voted to repeal the death penalty in March, the new law doesn’t impact the two men currently on death row or any others who could be sentenced to death for crimes committed before July 2009.