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SANTA FE STUDIOS: Part 2: Questions remain about Javier Gonzales role.

In Part 1 of the Watchdog investigation into the development of the Santa Fe Studios the Watchdog promised to look into current Democratic Party Chairperson, Javier Gonzales, and his role in making the nearly $25 million dollar film and media production facility south of Santa Fe a reality. On the Democratic Party website, under Mr. Gonzales’s bio, it ...
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Obama Stimulus Funds Spent on UNM’s Collection of Insects and Crustaceans; Zero Jobs For Humans Reported

By Jim Scarantino on June 1, 2012
  So you’re out of work with plenty of time on your hands. Drift on over to the University of New Mexico arthropod museum to see how $453,444 in stimulus funds intended for creating jobs for people was spent on critters who wear their skeletons on the outside of their bodies. On August 21, 2009, the National [...]Read More>>

Santa Fe Studios: Build it and they MIGHT come.

By Thomas Molitor on May 29, 2012
The history of the Santa Fe Studio Film and Media Complex is long. One could argue the history began when the owners of the Studio, Lance and his brother Conrad Hool, went to school together with former Gov. Bill Richardson back in the late ‘50s in Mexico City. After nearly six years in the making, the [...]Read More>>

$335,310 Per Job: The Cost of the Obama Stimulus in New Mexico

By Jim Scarantino on May 28, 2012
The billions have been spent. The data has been released. How efficiently did President Obama’s controversial stimulus package create or retain jobs in New Mexico? Based on the government’s own data, the Obama stimulus required $335,310 on average for each of the jobs it claims to have created or retained in New Mexico.  This figure has [...]Read More>>

Stephen Blanco Story: Part 2: “Floating Turds in the Pond.”

By Thomas Molitor on May 25, 2012
“There are turds floating on the golf course pond,” said Commissioner Jason Marks in 2010. The Picacho Hills Utility Company provides the Picacho Hills Country Club with its treated effluent water to irrigate the golf course. The country club is the PHUC’s biggest commercial customer, with 1000 homeowners in the golf course community development [...]Read More>>

The Stephen Blanco Story: The largest fine ever imposed by the PRC.

By Thomas Molitor on May 20, 2012
“Forget about it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” That was the last line of the classic movie Chinatown in which Jack Nicholson playing a private investigator stumbles onto a bigger story about the politics of water and the people behind it. On August 25, 2010 the Public Regulation Commission (PRC) fined a small privately-owned water utility company in Dona [...]Read More>>

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Spending in the Coss vs. Trujillo race for the Roundhouse: At least $7.82 per vote UPDATE: Could work out to $36.87 a vote

By Rob Nikolewski on June 1, 2012
Think the race between Carl Trujillo and David Coss to replace Speaker of the House Ben Luján isn’t important to a lot of political types? Consider this: nearly $155,000 has been raised between the two Democrats in the race for District 46 in the state House of Representatives, with Coss receiving $58,504 in contributions and Trujillo [...]Read More>>

Anna Crook weighs in on GOP state Senate primary: “I fear our Republican party may be torn apart”

By Rob Nikolewski on June 1, 2012
The state Senate primary race between two Republicans fighting to replace outgoing Sen. Clint Harden (R-Clovis) has caused plenty of controversy in eastern New Mexico and now a sitting Republican member of the state House of Representatives has written an opinion piece decrying what she calls “a toxic political environment the likes of which I [...]Read More>>

Gary Johnson qualifies for matching funds, will get $100,000 to start

By Rob Nikolewski on May 31, 2012
The Federal Election Commission on Thursday (May 31) announced that Libertarian Party presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has qualified for federal matching funds and that Johnson’s third-party bid for the nation’s highest office will receive an initial payment of $100,000 in public funds. “The fact that our campaign has attracted the broad-based [...]Read More>>

When Democrats attack — each other

By Rob Nikolewski on May 31, 2012
Democrats across the country and in New Mexico have railed against the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court allowing corporations and unions to spend as much money as they want in political campaigns, saying the rise of “Super PACs” is “allowing our elections to be taken over by billionaires” state Rep. Mimi Stewart (D-Albuquerque) [...]Read More>>

Sec of State won’t rule on Phil Griego until after primary

By Rob Nikolewski on May 30, 2012
New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran won’t make a decision on whether the campaign expenses of 4-term state Sen. Phil Griego (D-San Jose) were appropriate until after the Democratic Party primary this coming Tuesday. “The secretary and her office are getting ready for the primary,” Duran spokesman Ken Ortiz told Capitol Report New Mexico by [...]Read More>>

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