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A Modest Proposal

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Milan Simonich in the Jan. 19 issue of the Santa Fe New Mexican, lays out the shifty tricks legislators played on the public in...

Will New Mexico Seize the Moment?

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My husband and I moved to Albuquerque in January 2025 after spending two-and-a-half years in Nairobi, Kenya, where I had the extraordinary honor of...

Our Children Need Us Now More Than Ever

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As I sit to write this week’s column, I am also finishing the letter of recommendation that a former employee and now friend has...

Political Power and US Growth

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It seems like a decade has happened this past month, from Nicolás Maduro being captured in Venezuela to President Trump’s rhetoric on the conquest...

Living in a Chaotic World Without Going Insane

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How is a journalist supposed to turn down the volume on the world? Especially if consuming the news every day is part of the...

Why Would Any Doctor Want to Practice in this State?

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Troubled New Mexico has another significant worry: It’s losing its doctors. In 2024, it was the only state to have fewer doctors than it...

Student Success Requires Insurance Equity for Educators

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Six years ago, the average New Mexico teacher earned $180 more than the average New Mexico state employee, notes the Albuquerque Journal in a...

Bad Decisions Keep Pushing Us Behind

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Another week of mayhem, chaos and mismanagement has come and gone. Nothing new and no end in sight for the city of Española. This time,...

Democrats Blame Everyone but Themselves as Doctors Leave

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Something I’m hearing lately is, “That’s medicine in New Mexico,” spoken by weary doctors trying to explain a two-month waiting list for a physical...

Understanding N.M.’s Data Center Boom

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After years of failure to land a “big fish” business for New Mexico’s economy (or effectively use the oil and gas revenues to grow...

Wildfire Prevention Costs Less Than Suppression

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Did your parents ever tell you, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?” That adage also applies to wildfire management. When it...

Escaping a World on Fire Through Books

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There I was on holiday break ignoring the news and immersed in books after a year that was so loud and distracting that I...
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