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New Poll Finds Voters Support Smaller Elementary Classes

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A new poll of New Mexico voters found broad, bipartisan support for education reforms including capping the size of elementary school classes at 20...

Overlapping Issues In 2023-2024

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    SANTA ROSA, N.M. — As intense as this year has been, next year promises to be even more so.     For one thing, 2024...

The Janus Way: Looking Ahead to 2024

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    One of the fundamental principles of our representative republic is the concept of “checks and balances” to ensure one branch of government does...

Don’t Count on Change As Long as Candy Is Handed Out

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    Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina just last month. He ran on a platform of economic reform that included tying the Argentine...

Smaller Class Sizes can Lift Students and the Teaching Profession

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Every day more than 37,000 New Mexico elementary students, enough to fill the Pit twice over, experience negative effects of large class sizes such...

Looking back, Looking Forward

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At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong — from the end of...

New Year Offers a Time to Pause and Recollect

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In Roman mythology, the two-faced Janus was the god of doorways and gates. Those ancients envisioned one face guarding the home from outside evils, while...

Asha Can’t Be a Regular Wolf — She Has a Role in Lobo Recovery

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Asha, the Mexican grey wolf, took us on a journey this year. The region’s most famous escapee, she made her break from a federal wolf...

It’s a New Year; Turn on Your Light and Feed Your Starter

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    Every morning I wake up, turn on the light, make some dark coffee, and feed my sourdough starter.       If you want magic. ...

Letter to the editor 122823

Letters To Editor
I am writing in response to Milan Simonich’s decision to include me and my voting record in his rant regarding proposed alcohol tax concerns...

Another EV Mandate Looms for New Mexico

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Fresh off her “victory” in pushing a vast increase in the number of electric vehicles (EV’s) sold in New Mexico through a board appointed by her...

Letter to the editor 12/21/23

Letters To Editor
Hello I just have one question: Why did you not print the letter I submitted a couple of weeks ago? Don’t you realize that the...
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