Opinion

City Should Probably Reconsider Its List of Priorities

I was disappointed I didn’t bring my fly fishing rod. The pristine waters of the Snake and Yellowstone Rivers were calling my name. It...

Reading Banned Books Helped Me Think for Myself

I recently learned that in the months before his 1968 assassination Robert “Bobby” Kennedy Sr. changed his position on the death penalty after reading...

A Word of Thanks

Across our beautiful state, fishermen, hunters, and outdoorsmen of all kinds, ranchers and farmers, and miners and oil and gas producers interact with public...

Letters to the Editor 10/3/24

Find someone else In a full page editorial subtitled “Be an Informed Voter,” your columnist Tom Wright writes that Donald Trump survived “assaults from the...

Buy a piece of history

If you love historic hotels, and I do, it was a punch in the gut to read that the St. James Hotel in Cimarron...

What Does Beauty Mean to You?

Beauty means feeling the pain of loss, ambiguity and the unknown, not just the ecstasy of love. Love, as real and as elusive as it...

Letters to the editor 9/26/24

Editor, I am writing in response to the commentary by Javier Sanchez in the September 11, 2024 issue of the Rio Grande Sun. The commentary...

Guest opinion: Electoral College is Worth Preserving

Like clockwork, every presidential election we see a new set of attacks on the Electoral College. The Electoral College is the system by which...

Election 2024: Be an informed voter

I have a friend of 25 years who immigrated from Mexico and became an American citizen. She had voted for Trump in the past...

Guest opinion: To See or Not to See?

To see, or not to see, that was the question for the federal judge. And he got it right, despite deep opposition from the...

Remembering When New Mexicans Were Wooed by Presidential Candidates

By the time you read these words, I will be comfortably lodged in Atlanta, Georgia, a metropolis known for many things — as the...

Letters to the Editor 09/19/24

God or Democrats? America is undergoing attacks from “severe storms.” We are looking for help to save us from utter collapse. Here is my view: “When...

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