New Mexico Mercury

Charter watch: Insiders say state didn’t scrutinize ABQ school even though FBI did

Hearing for former APD officer Jeremy Dear postponed

APS: 800 students have opted out of PARCC test

Bill allowing home delivery of wine and beer heads to full Senate

Las Cruces students plan Monday walkout over state testing

Carol Paradise Decker: Living treasure was global thinker, but aimed to preserve local culture

Bill proposed for shower bus for homeless

Insight New Mexico - Dr. Lance Chilton

V.B. Price talks with pediatrician and immunization expert Dr. Lance Chilton about the ongoing controversy over vaccines, their safety and their effectiveness.

The Mimbres-Paquimé Connection

I’m with a group of officials and participants in the cross-border economic development project started by Mayor Philip Skinner of Columbus, New Mexico. The first meeting took place in Columbus on September 13, 2014 and I wrote about it in the article “Rebuilding Economies on the Border.” I missed the second meeting but attended the one in Deming on December 6, a meeting that was much more heavily attended than the first and included a number of private sector representatives like the Deming-Luna County Chamber of Commerce, the Deming Visitor’s Center and managers of Deming hotels...

Numbfecu Forever

It’s been a couple of weeks since my credit union, Numbfecu became Nusenda, and praise be, I have survived the name change. Yes, this is one of those delightful and quirky kind of New Mexico stories that always leave you laughing and never leave you numb, not like yesteryear, not like say the day Susana came swooping down like a Cooper’s hawk on our social services and shuttered places like Hogares in the North Valley, places that had been operating for forty years. All these local providers who had been serving New Mexico communities for so long were all criminals. In fact so heinous were their crimes, that they had to be driven away before anyone could assess their evil, which was disclosed by a Grand Audit showing just how crooked all these social services really were...