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If it Acts Crazy and Quacks Like a Duck, It’s a Man on Drugs

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The police blotter is published to give readers an abridged look at criminal activity in their community and neighborhood. It is simply an illustration...

How Do We Escape the Eternal Recurrence of the Same?

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As I bring the series of articles about light and darkness to an end, I am reminded of the story of Prometheus.   When I...

New Poll Finds Voters Support Smaller Elementary Classes

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The lawmaking season is upon us once again. The 30-day 2024 legislative sessionstarts next Tuesday at noon and as we have since 2013, New...

Gun Bills Make a Comeback in Legislative Crime Package

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 Guns are back on the governor’s priority list this year. She and the sponsors of several defeated bills from last year hope for a...

Governor’s Call: The Budget, Gun Control and Crime

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Our first legislative session of 2024 is known as the governor’s call, which is normally about budgets and spending. In addition to a 9.9% inrease...

Smaller Class Sizes can Lift Students and the Teaching Profession

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Every day more than 37,000 New Mexico elementary students, enough to fill the Pit twice over, experience negative effects of large class sizes such...

Looking back, Looking Forward

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At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong — from the end of...

Overlapping Issues In 2023-2024

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    SANTA ROSA, N.M. — As intense as this year has been, next year promises to be even more so.     For one thing, 2024...

New Year Offers a Time to Pause and Recollect

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In Roman mythology, the two-faced Janus was the god of doorways and gates. Those ancients envisioned one face guarding the home from outside evils, while...

The Janus Way: Looking Ahead to 2024

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    One of the fundamental principles of our representative republic is the concept of “checks and balances” to ensure one branch of government does...

Don’t Count on Change As Long as Candy Is Handed Out

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    Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina just last month. He ran on a platform of economic reform that included tying the Argentine...

Asha Can’t Be a Regular Wolf — She Has a Role in Lobo Recovery

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Asha, the Mexican grey wolf, took us on a journey this year. The region’s most famous escapee, she made her break from a federal wolf...
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