Julie Ann Grimm

Mar 13, 2024 | sfreporter.com | Julie Ann Grimm

Fellow journalists at the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism have had a little fun sending birthday cakes to government agencies when records requests pass the one-year mark. This award comes just shy of a 1st birthday, but in honor of Sunshine Week, SFR offers its own Foilie award for total disregard for the timely enforcement of the New Mexico Open Meetings Act to Attorney General Raúl Torrez.

Feb 13, 2024 | sfreporter.com | Julie Ann Grimm

The Senate Conservation Committee on Tuesday tabled a bill to establish what Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham touted as a “Strategic Water Supply” project. With less than two days remaining in the session, its chances of passage are slim. The governor announced her plan to pay private companies to develop treatment and delivery systems for underground brackish water and for water pumped to the surface by the oil and gas industry during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai last year.

Feb 12, 2024 | sfreporter.com | Julie Ann Grimm |Evan Chandler

New Mexico lawmakers are closing in on the priority business for the legislative session as the Senate adopted House Bill 2 on Monday. The budget bill for the upcoming fiscal year plans for how the state will spend more than $10 billion in anticipated revenue and covers nearly 300 pages. Senators on both sides of the aisle lauded the proposal during the floor hearing, with the measure passing 31-10 after less than two hours of debate.

Feb 7, 2024 | sfreporter.com | Julie Ann Grimm

Joseph Karnes spends about six hours every weekend running through what he calls New Mexico’s “nowhere lands.” After he moved to Santa Fe to semi-retire in 2006 with a 20-year legal career behind him, the former Olympic Marathon Trials runner burned through all the trails in the area. He next turned his attention to places where few people travel, parking his truck at public access gates and taking off on foot with a GPS and a spirit of adventure.

Jan 31, 2024 | sfreporter.com | Julie Ann Grimm

Lovers of historical drama, take note: The Promised Land, playing a single run at Violet Crown in partnership with the Santa Fe International Film Festival, will knock your gilded hosiery. At its center, two men present more or less a classic battle for good and evil. Capt.