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Rebates Now, Tax Reform Later

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By Paul J. Gessing Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is to be applauded for calling for rebates for hard-pressed New Mexicans. With an additional $850 million available to the State due to elevated oil and gas prices because...

The Delay is Becoming the Decision

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By Jim Townsend Seven years, two months and 25 days.That is how long it has been since Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed bipartisan legislation directing the Water Quality Control Commission to promulgate rules governing the beneficial use...

The Winds of Change Can Chart a New Path

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The winds of change come swift and furious. That’s something I learned hiking the White Mountains. Those winds blew right through me. They filled...

Private Equity Has No Place Owning New Mexico’s Gas Utility

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New Mexicans deserve energy companies that are reliable, transparent, and accountable to the public—not private-equity firms that play shell games with our essential services....

Profiting Off the Iran War in New Mexico

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As I adjusted to the news over the weekend that our country and Israel had attacked Iran, I began devouring updates — from the...

Medical Malpractice Bill Exposed Willful Ignorance

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Sen. Joe Cervantes was litigating House Bill 99, the medical malpractice reform bill, on the Senate floor, and he had plenty to say. Two days...

The Thirst for Power Will Destroy Our City

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The 18th Century Irish philosopher Edmund Burke was supposed to have said that evil triumphs when good men do nothing. The quote has been...

The Insulter in Chief

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Each time one thinks President Trump has reached the lowest level possible in insulting his enemies, he finds new depths to plunge. Following a 6-3...

White Culture and the Fictions Some Americans Tell Themselves

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President Donald Trump nominated Jeremy Carl to a top spot in the Trump administration’s State Department. Usually, there’d be no reason for you to...

Presidents’ Day and Some Valuable Lessons

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February 22, was the birthday of George Washington, which the nation celebrated as a federal holiday. In 1971, Presidents’ Day, was established as the...

Españolans Need to Rise Up and Light a Fire

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Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown cause surrounded by mysterious circumstances outside Gunner’s Hall Tavern in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1849. He is best known...

A Modest Proposal

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Milan Simonich in the Jan. 19 issue of the Santa Fe New Mexican, lays out the shifty tricks legislators played on the public in...

Will New Mexico Seize the Moment?

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My husband and I moved to Albuquerque in January 2025 after spending two-and-a-half years in Nairobi, Kenya, where I had the extraordinary honor of...

Political Power and US Growth

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It seems like a decade has happened this past month, from Nicolás Maduro being captured in Venezuela to President Trump’s rhetoric on the conquest...
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