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Two Perspectives as Legislature Rolls on

February 28, 2025

Three people in a video call setup. Two men in separate panels above, with a map and wooden wall backgrounds. A woman below, dressed in blue, smiles in front of a blue backdrop.

I am old enough to remember what it was like to watch two smart, service-minded people disagree on nearly every aspect of how government should function without unsheathing shiny, edged weapons to engage in ritual ripping and tearing. Alas, those memories feel dusty, old and grey in this age of CNN “panel discussions,” podcast “owns”…

For the Turnstiles

January 10, 2025

Two men sit facing each other in a studio with blue lighting. The backdrop displays "New Mexico in Focus" on a screen.

Alexander Uballez tossed his name in the hat to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico in 2020 after spending four years as a line prosecutor in federal court. It took a couple of years — the Senate confirmation process is an impenetrable bramble of bureaucratic bickering in this cursed political…