Opinion

We Want Medicare for All

Letters To EditorMarch 21, 2019

Those profiting off our disastrous health care system continue to push patchwork bills and incremental change. But we don’t need more Band-Aids. We...

New Regent Strengthens College’s Future

Letters To EditorMarch 21, 2019

I am pleased to learn Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham appointed Porter Swentzell, of Santa Clara, as a Northern New Mexico College regent. As...

Mayor Defends City Actions in Nitrate Reporting Kerfuffle

Letters To EditorMarch 21, 2019

I appreciate the opportunity to set the record straight regarding recent publications discussing a nitrate sample taken from one city well and the city's...

Trapping Indiscriminately Kills

Letters To EditorMarch 15, 2019

I support House Bill 366, which restricts traps, snares and poisons on public land. The Animal Damage Control killed one million animals a...

Support Green New Deal

Letters To EditorMarch 15, 2019

President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the New Deal – job creation and social programs that helped pull us out of the depression. This...

Legislators Didn’t Get Ethics Message

EditorialsMarch 15, 2019

Any discussion regarding the two bills moving through the legislature that would create an ethics commission must begin and end with stating 75...

Bullying Policy Must Focus on Issues

Letters To EditorMarch 15, 2019

I am writing to express my concern about the current New Mexico Public Education Department Anti-Bullying Policy. It maintains focus on the “perpetrator,...