Posts by Jeff Proctor

It’s primary election season and here at New Mexico in Focus, that means candidate interviews — lots of them.  This week, our plan was to interview the three Republicans running to replace Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who is termed out. Things were going along just duckie until Greg Hull — the former longtime mayor of Rio Rancho and frontrunner for…

Much ink and many pixels have been spilled over the news media industry’s contraction in recent years and likewise how this slow-motion disappearing act impacts American life: Democracy dies in darkness, corruption festers in shadow and so on and so forth. While I agree with the basic contours of this argument, I’m not here to linger on the problem which, by the way, is essentially intractable at…