A flurry of trips to China by Santa Fe officials makes sense, uh, why?

Juries get no respect. And even less compensation.

The New Mexico Supreme Court currently is deliberating whether to—as public defender Jeff Buckels put it in his May 12 oral argument—“finish off what the Legislature started” and completely end the death penalty.

Public Records, Environment for sale and the nukes we buy instead of schools

To receive a private investigator’s license in New Mexico, an individual must be 21 years old, “of good moral character,” pass the required PI exam and have not been convicted of an offense involving “dishonesty,” “an intentional violent act,” or illegal use or possession of a deadly weapon. Three years previous investigative experience also is required.

Robb Hamic says a state licensing board isn't pulling its weight.

An online conflict escalated to an all-out battle this month when a group of blogging reporters hammered veteran political blogger Joe Monahan for his use of anonymous sources.

12.4%      of workers nationwide are union members, a 0.3 percent or 428,000-member increase from 2007 for a total of 16.1 million, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.&

Katherine Christianson committed a crime during an act of environmentalist protet at age 19 in Wisconsin. She was 27 years old when the FBI arrested her in Santa Fe, where her parents live and she was a licensed massage therapist. She’ll be 29 when she finishes her two-year sentence at the federal women’s prison in southern Minnesota.

New Mexico breeds mad zombie skillz and a monkey army assembles electric lowriders. Sort of.

When a governor wants to kill a bill, he has two weapons at his disposal. He can veto it and say why. Or he can take no action whatsoever. The latter maneuver is known as the “pocket veto.”

Or, as political blogger Mario Burgos describes it, the “passive-aggressive approach to government.”