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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 me with courage, awe, and respect. It was my first time out,...
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. That’s why the proposed buyout of New Mexico Gas Company (NMGC) by...

Profiting Off the Iran War in New Mexico

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

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

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

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

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

February 22, was the birthday of George Washington, which the nation celebrated as a federal holiday. In 1971, Presidents’ Day, was established as the...
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Españolans Need to Rise Up and Light a Fire

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

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?

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

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...

Our Children Need Us Now More Than Ever

As I sit to write this week’s column, I am also finishing the letter of recommendation that a former employee and now friend has...

Living in a Chaotic World Without Going Insane

How is a journalist supposed to turn down the volume on the world? Especially if consuming the news every day is part of the...
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