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Jay Miller
Last updated on Monday, December 23, 2002
The first 18 years of his life, Jay lived in Lordsburg, Deming, Silver City and Las Cruces. He taught for three years before becoming an education lobbyist at the Capitol in Santa Fe for 25 years. Since 1987 he has used that background to write a daily political column that currently appears in 18 newspapers around New Mexico.
Jay Miller Jay draws on his Southern New Mexico roots to analyze New Mexico politics from an "outside Santa Fe" point of view. When action at the Capitol cools, he loves to venture afield to write about activities and attractions in other New Mexico locales, especially in Southern New Mexico.
Jay has written extensively on the federal government's involvement in what it contends didn't crash at Roswell in 1947 and on the 60-year search for treasure at Victorio Peak inside White Sands Missile Range, along the Sierra-Dona Ana County line. He also is a major booster of a Southern New Mexico Regional Spaceport.
Articles by Jay Miller
Did you know New Mexico had prisoner of war camps during World War II?This column has talked about ones at Santa Fe and Lordsburg that held U.S. residents of Japanese descent. The camp at Lordsburg also held captured German and Italian soldiers. Another camp at Roswell held almost exclusively German prisoners, most of them from Gen. Rommel's elite Afrika Korps, until late in the war.
The Seven Cities of Gold has been a New Mexico fable since before Fray Marcos de Niza claimed to have seen them in 1539. As soon as Cortes and crew finished conquering the Aztec Empire in the early 1520s, they set out to find the legendary Seven Cities of Gold, said to have been established by seven bishops who fled Spain after the Moorish conquest to hide gold, gems, and religious articles in the New World.
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