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A Word of Thanks

Across our beautiful state, fishermen, hunters, and outdoorsmen of all kinds, ranchers and farmers, and miners and oil and gas producers interact with public...

Reading Banned Books Helped Me Think for Myself

I recently learned that in the months before his 1968 assassination Robert “Bobby” Kennedy Sr. changed his position on the death penalty after reading...

Buy a piece of history

If you love historic hotels, and I do, it was a punch in the gut to read that the St. James Hotel in Cimarron...

What Does Beauty Mean to You?

Beauty means feeling the pain of loss, ambiguity and the unknown, not just the ecstasy of love. Love, as real and as elusive as it...

Guest opinion: Electoral College is Worth Preserving

Like clockwork, every presidential election we see a new set of attacks on the Electoral College. The Electoral College is the system by which...

Remembering When New Mexicans Were Wooed by Presidential Candidates

By the time you read these words, I will be comfortably lodged in Atlanta, Georgia, a metropolis known for many things — as the...

Saving Our Water Can’t Wait

CLOVIS — Our state is facing a water crisis, and we need our elected officials to act quickly to help solve it. As the executive...

Just Ask My Friend’s Mother

I was recently reminded that the citizens of Rio Arriba county voted to build a nursing home in our community. Does that ring a...

Media and Left Have Fed the Country Rank Deceptions, Conspiracies

The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left-wing and its media. The 2016 presidential campaign will be long remembered for...

Maybe a Satire Political Thought?

As I crawled into bed last night I told my wife, “I think we should have elections every year and for everyone and that...

Mass Deportation Spelled Out

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is mining a vein of public discontent when he calls for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. Recent polls show that...

N.M. Needs Health Care Professionals

A campaign by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration to poach doctors and nurses from Texas to fill gaps in health care is generating results,...

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