Opinion

First: Do No Harm

Opinion
    With yet another massive budget surplus awaiting the New Mexico Legislature as they convene in Santa Fe for the 2024 30-day legislative session,...

Analysis: What to Expect From This Legislative Session

Editorials
    Reader: Don’t forget to remember — as you follow the upcoming 30-day session — that (1) this is an election year; (2) there...

Saved by Jesus

Letters To Editor
I was traveling thru Espanola Deecember 22 to get to Texas from Taos. It was dark and cold out. I did not quite make...

A New Year and a little Northern New Mexico Magic … Turning $6 into $450,000

Opinion
    Growing up in New Mexico, looking back, I know I took a lot for granted. Simple things like the fall air filled with...

Governor Touts State Growth, But Population Stats are Grim

Opinion
    Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham touted in a press release Jan. 2 a stat from United Van Lines showing the national company helped more...

New Poll Finds Voters Support Smaller Elementary Classes

Opinion
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

Columnists
    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

Columnists
    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

Columnists
    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

Columnists
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

Columnists
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

Columnists
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...
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