Opinion

Do You Ever Feel Like the Government Is Disconnected From the People?

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By Jim Townsend State Representative District 54 During the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln described the fundamental principle of our representative republic as being...

Easter 2024

Editorials
May this Easter cast a long shadow of hope, redemption, and faith.

Garcia Richard Right to Bet on Bright Future of NM Oil and Gas

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Recently, Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, after pushing the Legislature for a 25% tax hike on New Mexico oil and gas producers made the...

Land Commissioner’s Petty Politics Will Hurt State’s Pocketbook

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Editor’s note: The following editorial is from the Albuquerque Journal. It expresses the editorial opinion of that newspaper but it’s a view we share.   It’s...

War Veterans Join the Public Debate over Monuments

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On Indigenous Peoples Day 2020 in broad daylight, a mob of vandals tore down the 154-year-old Soldier’s Monument in the center of Santa Fe...

The smell of mendacity

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“What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, B rick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this...

Remembering Linda Davis, best cowboy on the place

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If ranchers had royalty, Linda Davis would have worn a crown. She grew up on legendary ranches in northeastern New Mexico, began riding a...

This election year, remember that the U.S. and its people are more surprising than you think

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Work took me to the Bay Area twice this month. It is one of my favorite places on Earth after the three years we...

Peñasco Wins First Championship

Editorials
C ongratulations to the Peñasco Lady Panthers. The 2024 Class 2A Girls Basketball State Champions. It’s their first ever and well earned.  The Panthers are fun...

Nine stealth city elections

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Nine municipal governments around New Mexico held local elections a couple of weeks ago. If you didn’t know anything about this, you’re in good...

Letter to the editor

Letters To Editor
Today I read a burglar was killed while burglarizing an elderly couple. The suspect would be alive today if he was in jail. Had a...

Human Costs Grow As Ukraine-Russia Stalemate Continues

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Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front...
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