Opinion

Profiting Off the Iran War in New Mexico

As I adjusted to the news over the weekend that our country and Israel had attacked Iran, I began devouring updates — from the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to President Trump’s encouragement that Iran’s population rise up and replace the 47-year-old theocratic regime.

Profiting Off the Iran War in New Mexico

As I adjusted to the news over the weekend that our country and Israel had attacked Iran, I began devouring updates — from the...

Medical Malpractice Bill Exposed Willful Ignorance

Sen. Joe Cervantes was litigating House Bill 99, the medical malpractice reform bill, on the Senate floor, and he had plenty to say. Two days...

The Thirst for Power Will Destroy Our City

The 18th Century Irish philosopher Edmund Burke was supposed to have said that evil triumphs when good men do nothing. The quote has been...

The Insulter in Chief

Each time one thinks President Trump has reached the lowest level possible in insulting his enemies, he finds new depths to plunge. Following a 6-3...

White Culture and the Fictions Some Americans Tell Themselves

President Donald Trump nominated Jeremy Carl to a top spot in the Trump administration’s State Department. Usually, there’d be no reason for you to...

Presidents’ Day and Some Valuable Lessons

February 22, was the birthday of George Washington, which the nation celebrated as a federal holiday. In 1971, Presidents’ Day, was established as the...

Letters to the Editor 02/19/26

Changing Destiny Española Valley is a beautiful place to live and have your family enjoying the blessed multi-cultural and diverse population. This beauty has been changing...

Españolans Need to Rise Up and Light a Fire

Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown cause surrounded by mysterious circumstances outside Gunner’s Hall Tavern in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1849. He is best known...

Letters to the Editor 2/19/26

Pass All Compacts State lawmakers have been touting the fact that New Mexico recently secured $211 million in federal funding for rural hospitals through the...

A Modest Proposal

Milan Simonich in the Jan. 19 issue of the Santa Fe New Mexican, lays out the shifty tricks legislators played on the public in...

Will New Mexico Seize the Moment?

My husband and I moved to Albuquerque in January 2025 after spending two-and-a-half years in Nairobi, Kenya, where I had the extraordinary honor of...

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