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Understanding the State Land Commissioner’s Oil & Gas Holdout

By Lou DiVizio March 29, 2024

If you aren’t completely familiar with the ins and outs of the New Mexico State Land Office, you have company. It plays a significant role in state revenue by generating…

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Four Years of COVID — and Counting

By Jeff Proctor March 25, 2024

March 11 snuck up on me a bit this year. The date has been seared into my brain since 2020, when what we used to call the novel coronavirus swept…

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U.S. Attorney Cracks a Window on APD Corruption Probe

By Jeff Proctor March 15, 2024

Sunshine Week, the annual paean to those who carry the torch for government transparency, concludes tomorrow, and it’s fair to say I’ve been feeling some fatigue on that front of…

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Spoken Word

By Jeff Proctor March 8, 2024

I’ve been a fan of Patrick Lohmann’s journalism since I met him well over a decade ago. He did fine work at the Daily Lobo, then at the Albuquerque Journal,…

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Attorney Tips FBI on APD DWI Corruption Case

By Elise Kaplan March 4, 2024

He won’t say exactly when, but at some point a “young person” came to attorney Daymon Ely with a story about possible corruption involving the Albuquerque Police Department’s DWI officers…