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Holiday Weekend History Blogging: The Spanish Influence In New Mexico; Fact Or Fantasy; Readers Lead The Great Debate

9/3/2010 2:01 AM

Estevan Rael-G??lvezThere are more than a few armchair historians among our blog readers, and it seemed just about all of them jumped out of their easy chairs when on Tuesday we posted and commented on controversial remarks from Dr. Estevan Rael-G??lvez, Ph.D., the executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center and a former state historian for New Mexico.Rael-G??lvez dubbed the Spanish legacy in New Mexico "a fantasy" and "somewhat of a fabrication." He added: "Spain may be the least of what has shaped our heritage of converging...

Democracy for New Mexico

Guest Blog: Response to Hateful Letter About Brian Col??n Published in Valencia County News-Bulletin

9/3/2010 1:15 PM

This is a guest blog by Victor Raigoza, a life-long Democratic activist who serves as Vice Chair of the Democratic Party of Bernalillo County. Victor offers a message to Democrats in response to a letter to the editor published this...

Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics

NMPolitics.net has moved

8/22/2009 7:27 PM

As of today, this Web site is no longer the home of Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics, which I now more commonly call NMPolitics.net. The site has moved to http://nmpolitics.net. Click through to the new NMPolitics.net and you???ll find a completely redesigned and upgraded site that I hope you???ll find more user-friendly than this site was. As always, you can e-mail your thoughts or questions to me at heath@haussamen.com. This site will continue to remain online for archive purposes as long as Blogger, the host, permits, but the...

KRQE Political Blog

The Inaugural Crowds

1/21/2009 7:52 PM

CNET and CBS News have posted some very interesting satellite pictures of crowds at the National Mall for President Obama's inauguration.

Mario Burgos

Seriously?

4/28/2010 9:35 AM

It looks like the New Mexico's "golden ticket" is struggling on more than one front.  But, at least someone is still writing fantasies for media distribution:"Governor Richardson has led the way for ethics reform in New Mexico," said Richardson spokeswoman Alarie Ray-Garcia.Are you kidding me? A list of corruption this long, and the Governor is being positioned as the champion of ethics?

New Mexico FBIHOP

Some thoughts on the westside forum with Heinrich and Barela

9/2/2010 4:34 PM

Congressman Martin Heinrich and his Republican challenger Jon Barela were in the room together for the first time (I believe) at a candidates' forum on Albuquerque's westside Wednesday night. The two faced off at Don Newton Taylor Ranch Community Center kind of. You can read my report on the face-off at The New Mexico Independent. There weren't many fireworks at the forum, as the way it was structured meant that Heinrich and Barela did not interact. Heinrich gave an opening statement, answered two questions (one on traffic, another on...

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