New Mexico Mercury

New Mexico Mercury

Insight New Mexico - Ona Porter

March 19, 2015

By V.B. Price

V.B. Price talks with Ona Porter, President and CEO of Prosperity Works, an organization fighting against poverty in New Mexico, about predatory pay day lenders and current related legislation making its way through the roundhouse.

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V.B. Price

V.B. Price is editor and co-founder of New Mexico Mercury. He is the former editor of Century Magazine and New Mexico Magazine, former city editor of the New Mexico Independent, and long-time columnist for the late Albuquerque Tribune. His latest book is The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He retired as the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at UNM Press in 2010. He has taught in the UNM Honors Program since l986.