Posts by Jeff Proctor

This week saw a busy Wednesday at the New Mexico Supreme Court, when the justices heard oral arguments in cases connected to two of this year’s thorniest issues: abortion rights and homelessness. The court did not immediately rule on whether counties and cities can pass ordinances that restrict access to reproductive health care in a…

There’s no down-the-middle, dispassionate way to characterize the story that appeared Oct. 26 on the Albuquerque Journal’s front page under the headline, “Former BernCo sheriff, undersheriff named in cross-country machine gun scheme”. It is, to borrow a term repopularized in the 1960s by beloved New Journalist Tom Wolfe, bananas.  My initial reaction to the words…