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When the Government has no Respect for Rules

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Currently the  Environmental Improvement Board is considering an outlandish request of the New Mexico Environment Department to increase the fees for General Construction Permits...

FEMA Revamps New Mexico Operations

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As Ruidoso area residents return to their homes – or what’s left of their homes – we’ll be watching FEMA. For the past two years,...

The ‘False God’ of Addiction

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — I am a fan of National Public Radio. It is the only radio I listen to for news because I trust...

Posting Ten Commandments is a Performative Act

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Louisiana passed a law last week requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom in an act of performative religiosity. It...

Fate Doesn’t Reward Dreamers

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Have you ever whispered “I love you” to someone so softly, so quietly that you almost didn’t want them to hear? Have you cried...

What’s next for Spaceport America?

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It was glamour and glitz again as Virgin Galactic sent its last space tourists into the heavens this month. Now the company will fade...

Religion Still Has Power in American Politics

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In 1996 I took a year off from journalism to attend seminary in Atlanta. The plan was to cram as much theology, sociology of...

Is Europe ahead of the United States?

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In the 27-member block of the European Union, conservative candidates identifying with the right won in Germany and France and are polling ahead in...

Keeping Affordable Housing Affordable

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I’m haunted by an online post I saw recently. A young woman said she’d been homeless for months and living in her car. She...

Vacationing In-State On The Cheap

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I’m a big fan of vacations on the cheap, which is good, since I’ve seldom been able to afford anything first-class. Besides, top-dollar travel...

Don’t Let Them Do a Price Check on You, Know Your Worth

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By Javier Sanchez My very first job in high school was working as a checker at a big box discount grocery store. It was a...

New Mexico Betting on Losers

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By Paul Gessing Left, right, or center, economists tend to agree that “corporate welfare” is not good public policy or good economics. A recent Rasmussen poll...
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