Last night’s municipal elections in Las Cruces saw progressives claim victory in every race they participated in, which also saw a roughly 2% increase in voter participation from that last time those districts held elections (so much for an anti-Trump backlash). Turnout barely broke into the double digits unlike Albuquerque’s historic 29% turnout last month.…
Category: 2017 Elections
Nota Bene: 09.14.2017
“America’s Democracy is in trouble unless we put aside the political extremes and work toward our common goals.” – Sen. Pete Domenici in 2008 I. It is hard to travel anywhere in La Politica without meeting a politico who either interned or worked for the late, great Senator Domenici at some point in their careers.…
Albuquerque Needs a New City Council
The city’s website shows that from 2006 to 2015, overall crime in Albuquerque rose by 7%. Most shockingly, violent crime is up 19%. On August 12, 2016, KOAT-TV reported that Albuquerque is the fifth most violent city in the country. Even worse, on June 9, 2017 the Albuquerque Journal reported that Albuquerque leads the nation…
Nota Bene: We Will Never Forget...By Studying
I. I was a freshman at Las Cruces High School on 9/11/2001. The post cold war, Pax Americana had come to an end and all of our rose colored millennial lives were about to change; we couldn’t articulate it at the time but knew the dawn of a new geo-political struggle that began to ensue…