Only in New Mexico

I continue to be astonished at the way our new governor is spending her time fighting with the Albuquerque School board over how big their p...

As we were talking about the new Congress in DC and how it will really screw up land and water protections by killing environmental agency b...

I returned from Palm Springs on Saturday after a nice drive.  I needed to beat the weather front coming in from Southern California that was...

We are still in meetings of the Governing Council of the Wilderness Society.  It has been a busy day but ended with a nice hike into some ca...

I am leaving Amado, Arizona today for Palm Springs, California.  It is a nice area that is picturesque except for the thousand foot high pil...

On my drive down to Tucson, Arizona  a couple of things became obvious.  Arizona's highways are in bad shape compared to New Mexico'...

I worked with  Jeff Bingaman when he was the Attorney General for New Mexico.  He and Bruce King had run campaigns at the same time in 1978 ...

Governor Susana Martinez doesn't like the Rail Runner between Belen and Santa Fe.  The new republican governors of Florida, Ohio, and Wi...

Who can blame Senator Jeff Bingaman for deciding not to run again?  Since he is a voice of reason in the Senate, although a subtle one, he i...

The group of religiously inspired fundamentalists who insist gay people shouldn't marry marched in Santa Fe to a mostly hostile group of...

The discovery of social media mutterings of Albuquerque Police Officers should not be surprising.  Everyone does it.  I shoot my mouth off e...

It is pretty easy to tell that I am left of center.  So here is some Sacrilege.  I don't see any problem with people having to show an i...

My friend Lee, who did his graduate work on owls, said this is a Screech Owl .  So did some of my Commenters!  Some lore says that the owl i...

We had some excitement around the house last night.  Bobbi walked into the office in our home.  And found this.  Yes.  A young owl had someh...

One thing you have to be aware of as a leader in New Mexico is where  your bread is buttered.  Susana Martinez in her poorly written state o...

The Santa Fe New Mexican put a face on immigrant families being torn apart in the Sunday edition .  A father who worked for 16 years in Sant...

While I was at a dinner last night in Salt Lake City, my phone buzzed more than once with the news that Harrison Schmitt bailed out of his n...

Bill Gates started his great computer revolution in Albuquerque , New Mexico near the house I grew up in near San Mateo and Central.  Becaus...

Did you know that New Mexico is defined as a state by its scandals?  I never knew that.  But right there in the Albuquerque Journal this mor...

I flew to Boston yesterday for a board meeting of the Wyss Foundation.  We work in focused ways to fund non profits who protect western land...