Nathan Brown

Santa Fe

Assistant City Editor at Santa Fe New Mexican

Assistant City Editor @thenewmexican. Politics reporter in Arizona and Idaho before that. Send news/green chile cheeseburger tips to [email protected].

Articles

Measles reported in Clovis area; 71 cases total in New Mexico

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Nathan Brown

Measles has spread to a new New Mexico county, this time a little farther north of the previously reported cases.
The Roundhouse Report: Midweek update

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Nathan Brown

President Donald Trump unveiled a budget proposal late last week that would make steep cuts to many federal programs, including education, housing and health care programs upon which many people in New Mexico, one of the poorest states in the country, rely. It remains to be seen to what extent the Republican-controlled Congress will go along with the president's proposals; the state Legislature, in anticipation, created an interim committee recently to study how to respond to any cuts that come.
Coming Sunday and Monday

1 week ago | santafenewmexican.com | Nathan Brown

New Mexico is known for its deserted towns nestled along boundless highways that have become attractions in the scenic state. According to New Mexico True, operated by the state Tourism Department, the Land of Enchantment boasts more than 400 ghost towns — many made up of little more than aging foundations and the equipment of abandoned mines. Some can be found on the Turquoise Trail, the state road that runs between Albuquerque and Santa Fe and provides a scenic alternate to Interstate 25.
The Roundhouse Report: Midweek update

2 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Nathan Brown

State Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced Tuesday he was filing a lawsuit with a group of other blue states challenging the Trump administration's termination of AmeriCorps grants and effectively dismantling the agency by firing 85% of its workforce. “AmeriCorps is a vital public service program in our country, and its sudden dismantling is not only reckless — it’s unlawful,” Torrez said in a statement.
Las Cruces Author Adds to Billy the Kid Story with New Book

3 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Nathan Brown

Henry McCarty, known to many of his contemporaries as “Henry Antrim” or “William H. Bonney” and to modern readers as “Billy the Kid,” was shot to death in Fort Sumner 144 years ago, a few months shy of his 22nd birthday. The annals of the West are full of gunslingers who lived on the wrong side of the law and came to a violent end. So why is Billy the Kid remembered and idolized in a way that many of them are not? “Billy is unique,” says George Matthews. “He was not your typical outlaw.
The Roundhouse Report: Midweek update

3 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Nathan Brown

Happy Wednesday. I hope those of you who celebrate had a happy Easter. I would also like to take a moment to encourage you to subscribe to our sister environmental newsletter, "Earth, Wind and Fire," which debuted Tuesday and will come out once a week. As the Trump administration seeks to expand energy production and reduce protections for some federal lands, there is a lot of overlap now between the political and environmental beats.
Coming Sunday and Monday

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nathan Brown

Farmers sound off on policy changesDon Bustos calls farming a "life calling." His family has been farming the same 5 or so acres of land — known as Santa Cruz Farm — since the 1690s. It's a year-round operation, with one of Bustos' greenhouses already bursting with fresh lettuce and other vegetables. Outside, the fields at Santa Cruz Farm are springing back to life.
PNM to update public Thursday on possible power shutoffs due to high winds, fire risk

4 weeks ago | santafenewmexican.com | Nathan Brown

Public safety power shutoffs are still possible in the Santa Fe and Las Vegas, N.M., areas and in the Sandia and East Mountains east of Albuquerque amid high winds and fire danger expected Thursday. Public Service Company of New Mexico had no additional details about the chances or possible locations of power shutoffs as of Wednesday evening but said it plans to release more information Thursday.
The Roundhouse Report: Midweek update

1 month ago | santafenewmexican.com | Nathan Brown

Happy Wednesday!!A group of Democratic lawmakers, including New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury and Sen. Ben Ray Luján, on Tuesday introduced the "SGE Ethics Enforcement and Reform Act," which they say would "strengthen transparency and ethics requirements for Special Government Employees" and rein in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency by restricting communication between special government employees and government agencies.
School Indigenous language bill, wild horse reform among governor's 17 'pocket vetoes' this year

1 month ago | santafenewmexican.com | Nathan Brown

A bill that backers said would have bolstered education in Indigenous languages was among the casualties of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s veto pocket. The deadline for the governor to act on bills was Friday. The day came and went with 17 bills that had passed the House and Senate going unsigned. Known as a “pocket veto” under the New Mexico Constitution, bills the governor doesn't act on by the deadline are effectively vetoed and don’t become law. Sponsored by Sen.