Opinion

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...

Levin: Give Student-Athletes Credit for Española Football’s Turnaround

Española football’s turnaround started two years ago. From the lowest of the low — two straight years of winless football with blowouts in nearly every...

Opinion: New Mexico Deserves the Facts, Communities Will Receive Vital Treatment Dollars from Opioid Litigation

Recent opinions have taken to criticizing New Mexico’s approach to holding manufacturers and distributors of deadly opioids accountable for decades of damage to our...

Opinion: Hector’s Leftovers – Huge Legal Bill For Opioid Lawsuit Draws Attention Of Ethics Commission But Not Much Else

It wasn't pay to play. It was more like pay a pal. So went the outlandish deal attorney General Hector Balderas pulled off for...

Opinion: Political Opposites Can Have a Civil Conversation Over Turkey

Looking forward to those family gatherings over the holidays? Or maybe not? There’s that one relative who is all about politics. Or worse, two on...

Editorial: It’s Not Too Late to Save Thanksgiving

We noticed something shocking this fall. No sooner had Halloween ended and all of the candy eaten the world seemed to have leap-frogged over Thanksgiving. Store...

Opinion: How Do We Overcome the Mijito Syndrome in the Valley?

My dad was worried. “If something happens to you, we don’t have the money to get you out,” I remember him telling me. “Don’t get...

Opinion: Israel, Other Countries, Highly Vulnerable

The population of Israel is about 10 million. This represents about half of the world’s Jewish people. The founding idea of modern Israel was to...

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