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Sometimes We Have to Let Things Go in Order to Grow

Watching something fall to the ground and being unable to reach for it is difficult to accept. I was performing my morning ritual the...

Parents, Students Have Opportunity to Help Choose High School Graduation Requirements

With the governor’s signing of a new law updating the state’s high school curriculum, New Mexico families now have a prime opportunity to shape...

Have 8 Million Immigrants Come to the U.S. Under Biden?

Some 8 to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since President Joe Biden took...

Reminiscing About Family While Watching the Masters Golf Tournament

Later this week, private jets from around the country and globe will descend on my hometown and for a few days the sports world...

Get the Kids Off Social Media

SANTA ROSA, N.M. — The world as I know it has ended. I agree with Ron DeSantis on something. On March 25, the Florida governor...

Garcia Richard Right to Bet on Bright Future of NM Oil and Gas

Recently, Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, after pushing the Legislature for a 25% tax hike on New Mexico oil and gas producers made the...

Land Commissioner’s Petty Politics Will Hurt State’s Pocketbook

Editor’s note: The following editorial is from the Albuquerque Journal. It expresses the editorial opinion of that newspaper but it’s a view we share.   It’s...

War Veterans Join the Public Debate over Monuments

On Indigenous Peoples Day 2020 in broad daylight, a mob of vandals tore down the 154-year-old Soldier’s Monument in the center of Santa Fe...

Easter is the Ultimate Desire to Take a Leap of Faith

Soren Kierkegaard coined the phrase, “leap of faith” to describe the necessary step when defining happiness and the meaning of life. The Dutch philosopher...

Do You Ever Feel Like the Government Is Disconnected From the People?

By Jim Townsend State Representative District 54 During the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln described the fundamental principle of our representative republic as being...

Nine stealth city elections

Nine municipal governments around New Mexico held local elections a couple of weeks ago. If you didn’t know anything about this, you’re in good...

Human Costs Grow As Ukraine-Russia Stalemate Continues

Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front...

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