I met Ollie Reed Jr. in 1978, when we were crisscrossing the state covering Bruce King and Joe Skeen in a colorful New Mexico governor’s race, Ollie for the Albuquerque Tribune and I for the Santa Fe New Mexican. The fall dust-up between the two big New Mexico ranchers was made for us. They drawled as heavily …
I dreamed of barbecue in 1978, not because I craved it but because I often ate it three meals a day. It was a governor election year in New Mexico and there was a heavy-duty contest between two native-born ranchers, Bruce King and Joe Skeen. Both men were big, burly New Mexicans with hands like …
Watching Gov. Susana Martinez’s angry-seeming vetoes as the Legislature tumbles toward an unhappy end, I am reminded that Gov. Bruce King could turn a rodeo into a pet show. It was no accident that the late “cowboy governor” called the state’s 112 lawmakers his “board of directors.” Of course, King, unlike Martinez, had been one …
Rang in the new year with maddening work computer problems at home on a midnight governor swearing-in story that needed to go online. Fortunately, Journalistos Steve Williams and Rob Browman were on the ball and pitched in to bail me out on the posting of a story our bosses really wanted to get on the …
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