Green Chile Chatter

One of the things I like about occasionally covering the state's Congressional delegation is looking at the issues Congress deals with that transcend politics.
After I got a press release recently on a move by all five members to fund a center in the Southwest to study Cerebral Cavernous Malformations, I started to learn about the rare disease, which is disproportionately prevalent in New Mexico Hispanics....

Back in 2010, I started writing about a local group of Vietnam veterans who sought to compile 397 photos of the New Mexicans killed in the Vietnam War. By June of last year, the group had 19 to go. As of today, it has just six left to complete its goal...

So I've been bad about blogging lately. Really bad. But I have been busy, and now you'll know why.
As part of our coverage of the state's 100th birthday, I wrote a nine-storie series on the Centennial. I went from PeNasco to Cedar Crest to Isleta Pueblo and back to Santa Fe to talk to folks who have lived a good chunk of the state's 100 years. Regular...

It's been a good while since I've written about tribal casinos and revenue sharing, but there's been an interesting development in that arena. The chairman of the state's Gaming Control Board, David Norvell, said many of the 14 gaming tribes in New Mexico...