Posts by Gwyneth Doland

When I started covering the Legislature more than 15 years ago, I was totally intimidated by the state’s Capitol press corps. Back then political reporting was dominated by the same rumpled, grizzled characters who starred in every black-and-white movie you never saw about the news business. For me, reporting from Santa Fe felt like a…

It often feels like the news is bad, all the time, and getting worse. This week in particular I’ve cringed every time my phone pinged with an alert about another natural disaster, another major world democracy teetering on political collapse. But then I think about Simone Biles coming back from the twisties to lead the…