Opinion

This Christmas, Let’s Take a Little Humility and Put the Pieces Together

    The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. It represents long and cold nights. It symbolizes darkness...

Levin: Football Redistricting Means Big Changes

Football on red turf is going to look quite a bit different next year. The number of players on the field was just cut down...

Education is the Key Ingredient To Improving Our Lot in Life

  Whether you are the son or daughter of an immigrant or a hard-working parent who has lived in the Valley their entire life,...

EIB Rule is Unsustainable

    After four long days of testimony and public comment the Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) decided recently to move forward with Gov. Lujan Grisham’s...

Lost Faith in our Institutions

SANTA ROSA, N.M. — Could it be that today’s “Deep State” conspiracy theories got their start with 1947’s Roswell Incident? One could say you...

We’ve Seen This ‘Film’ Before

Some movies are worth watching more than once. The one now playing in the Middle East isn’t one of them. How many times must we...

Hanson: The Unhinged Among Us

Oct. 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation. During peace and holiday, invading Hamas gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated...

How to Improve Our City and Get Out of the Negative Mindset

Sometimes we’re poor because we lack adequate opportunities.   Sometimes we’re poor because we don’t work hard enough.   And sometimes we’re poor because we keep...

Criminal Justice Debates Must Include County Jails

    Maybe in the future a speaker will urge new high school graduates to consider the rewarding career of a detention center guard. If...

Keeping Down The National Debt

By Cal Thomas Congress just passed – and President Biden just signed – the latest short-term government funding bill to keep the government running. The bill,...

Common Sense About Common Sense from The Greatest Minds

    “He ain’t got a lick of sense.”     There’s an expression I haven’t heard since my boyhood in Boonville, North Carolina. The people who...

Reform Education to Boost Workforce, Economy

    The Legislative Finance Committee has produced a new report looking at the issue of New Mexico’s low workforce participation rate. Here is one...

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