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It’s a New Year; Turn on Your Light and Feed Your Starter

    Every morning I wake up, turn on the light, make some dark coffee, and feed my sourdough starter.       If you want magic. ...

Another EV Mandate Looms for New Mexico

Fresh off her “victory” in pushing a vast increase in the number of electric vehicles (EV’s) sold in New Mexico through a board appointed by her...

EIB Rule is Unsustainable

    After four long days of testimony and public comment the Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) decided recently to move forward with Gov. Lujan Grisham’s...

Lost Faith in our Institutions

SANTA ROSA, N.M. — Could it be that today’s “Deep State” conspiracy theories got their start with 1947’s Roswell Incident? One could say you...

We’ve Seen This ‘Film’ Before

Some movies are worth watching more than once. The one now playing in the Middle East isn’t one of them. How many times must we...

Hanson: The Unhinged Among Us

Oct. 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation. During peace and holiday, invading Hamas gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated...

Opinion: New Mexico Deserves the Facts, Communities Will Receive Vital Treatment Dollars from Opioid Litigation

Recent opinions have taken to criticizing New Mexico’s approach to holding manufacturers and distributors of deadly opioids accountable for decades of damage to our...

Opinion: Hector’s Leftovers – Huge Legal Bill For Opioid Lawsuit Draws Attention Of Ethics Commission But Not Much Else

It wasn't pay to play. It was more like pay a pal. So went the outlandish deal attorney General Hector Balderas pulled off for...

Opinion: Political Opposites Can Have a Civil Conversation Over Turkey

Looking forward to those family gatherings over the holidays? Or maybe not? There’s that one relative who is all about politics. Or worse, two on...

Opinion: How Do We Overcome the Mijito Syndrome in the Valley?

My dad was worried. “If something happens to you, we don’t have the money to get you out,” I remember him telling me. “Don’t get...

Opinion: Israel, Other Countries, Highly Vulnerable

The population of Israel is about 10 million. This represents about half of the world’s Jewish people. The founding idea of modern Israel was to...

Opinion: Investments in Northern New Mexico Are More Crucial Than Ever

Over the past decade or so it has become fashionable on both the left and the right to call for America to be more...

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