Opinion

What Does it Mean to be a Political Prisoner?

Summer is here and we have just celebrated the Fourth of July. It’s going to get hot. The election season is here. The first...

Presidential Power and the Risk for Abuse

Last week the Supreme Court gave American presidents broad immunity against criminal prosecution. It is the first recognition in our nation’s 240-year history of...

Success Depends on Ability to Change, Adapt

I sit next to a stack of books I should be reading, yet the echo of words spoken somewhere last week are all I...

When the Government has no Respect for Rules

Currently the  Environmental Improvement Board is considering an outlandish request of the New Mexico Environment Department to increase the fees for General Construction Permits...

Celebrate Freedom, That’s How We Win

T here was a time and it was not that long ago when we identified the sound of a firecracker exploding, as, well, as simply...

Posting Ten Commandments is a Performative Act

Louisiana passed a law last week requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom in an act of performative religiosity. It...

FEMA Revamps New Mexico Operations

As Ruidoso area residents return to their homes – or what’s left of their homes – we’ll be watching FEMA. For the past two years,...

Letter to the Editor 06/27/24

  Last week I was driving back from Colorado, and picked up the Rio Grande Sun in Española. I finally found time to read the...

The ‘False God’ of Addiction

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — I am a fan of National Public Radio. It is the only radio I listen to for news because I trust...

Smart Rural Development Depends Upon Wilderness Preservation

The Taos News TAOS — The Taos County Commission has been tasked week with approving or denying one of the largest land development projects in...

Fate Doesn’t Reward Dreamers

Have you ever whispered “I love you” to someone so softly, so quietly that you almost didn’t want them to hear? Have you cried...

What’s next for Spaceport America?

It was glamour and glitz again as Virgin Galactic sent its last space tourists into the heavens this month. Now the company will fade...

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