Oct. 17, 2026. Our Bernalillo County Commission District 5 page said Thomas Riley works in financial services with his father and brother. He works with his father; his brother does not work at their firm. Riley told us.
Oct. 14, 2026. Our U.S. Eagle loans story got two details wrong. Southwest Capital Bank's six branches are in New Mexico, not northern New Mexico. We said Michael Moore was finance chief for 12 years; U.S. Eagle says he worked there more than 16 years, most recently as finance chief.
Oct. 13, 2026. Our own fact check of our story on U.S. Eagle's loans found two mistakes, and we fixed both. The story said deposit insurance "covers each depositor, not each account." The $250,000 limit is counted by type of ownership, such as individual, joint and retirement accounts, so one member can be insured for more. A chart showed $377.1 million lent outside New Mexico; the figure is $377.2 million. U.S. Eagle has said some of the story's facts are wrong but has not pointed to any. Neither fix came from U.S. Eagle.
Oct. 8, 2026. We checked every published story against the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics. Seventeen stories from before we began linking every fact to its source didn't meet these standards. We archived them: each carries a note saying so and stays at its address, but none appears in our sections, feed or search. We also reworded two sentences that followed another outlet's wording too closely, and labeled our live police calls story as a Ledger campaign.
Sept. 14, 2026. Our story on the city budget said the city council found $11.8 million "nobody could account for." The city council said the mayor's proposal left fiscal 2026's $11.8 million ending balance out of the starting balance for fiscal 2027. The story also said fiscal 2027 was the first budget to shrink in nearly a decade, but the fiscal 2024 budget shrank too. We removed claims about homelessness programs that the story's sources did not back up: how much the city spent on them in fiscal 2026, that they were the fastest-growing part of the budget, and how many people they serve.
Sept. 14, 2026. Our Balloon Fiesta story said about 800 of the city's roughly 2,000 short-term rentals have a permit. It also said lodging and food tax receipts and Sunport passenger counts clearly rise in October. The story gave no source for either statement, and we removed both when we rewrote it.