Memorial Services are being planned for the New Mexico State Capitol in the coming week to remember longtime New Mexico State Representative Luciano “Lucky” Varela of Santa Fe. Varela died Saturday at his home in Santa Fe.

KSFR's Tom Trowbridge spoke with Varela, a Democrat who served 30-years in the House, shortly after his retirement from the Legislature took effect.

Tom Trowbridge speaks with Joe Monahan—a political consultant and former reporter, who launched his journalistic-non-partisan blog, “New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan” in 2003--about what's ahead in the 2018 election cycle very early on in the campaign.