There’s no doubt that Hanna Skandera, secretary-designate for the New Mexico Public Education Department, has been in Santa Fe lately.

Last week, after a less-than-stellar record of adhering to state liquor laws, Agua Fria Street’s somewhat infamous House of Booze liquor store was shut down.

Hanna Skandera’s education reform agenda reads like a page from the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s playbook.

Sexual assault remains a complex and underreported problem in New Mexico.

On a recent Friday afternoon, Santa Fe Police Department Officer Jeff Worth spots two teenage boys, both wearing hoodies, nervously looking around as they walk outside the Target on Zafarano Drive. Worth is working his beat plainclothes today, and his vehicle is unmarked. The two boys don’t know he’s watching them.

If government is truly to be for, by and of the people, then we should know what’s going on—and several lawmakers are trying to make sure that happens.

Brian Greer moved to Taos to ski, but he got hooked on another winter sport.

This year marks the inauguration of SFR’s Patrón Awards (named, of course, for New Mexico’s loved and hated patron system—the good ol’ boy network that has shaped state politics for a century). The awards, first announced on Dec. 17 in the Weekly Word podcast (listen at SFReporter.com), range from seriously honorable to utterly facetious. Read on.

After elections come more elections. On Saturday—just over a month after the Nov. 6 election—the Republican Party of New Mexico selected its new figurehead: a tall, deep-voiced Lincoln County party chairman who candidly urged his fellow partisans to do some “soul searching.”

After a long and varied career in state government, another of Gov. Susana Martinez’ cabinet officials has resigned.