Local Government's COI Pond

Las Cruces shows the problem isn't just at the Roundhouse

Something happened earlier this week that isn’t supposed to happen in New Mexico.

A candidate with extensive private-sector experience ousted an incumbent who devoted her career to “public service.”

Dan Lewis, soon to rejoin Albuquerque’s city council after a four-year absence, is the former president of Desert Fuels. He “started his own fast-growing tran…