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By Jodi Hendricks | Jul 4, 2025
Last week brought a quiet but deeply significant victory for life, liberty, and the integrity of the medical profession.
By Jodi Hendricks | Jul 4, 2025
In an age of online interaction, political division, and social isolation, there’s something quietly radical about showing up in person—together, with our neighbors.
By Crystal Brantley | Jul 1, 2025
Last week, I stood in the smoke-shadowed foothills near the Gila, watching the Hotshot crews return from another 16-hour shift fighting the Trout Fire.
By Larry Scott | Jul 1, 2025
I traveled over 600 miles and dedicated three full days to attend this week’s Legislative Health and Human Services interim committee meeting.
By Nicole Tobiassen | Jul 1, 2025
New Mexico is in crisis. Our violent crime rate is among the highest in the world. We are losing children to abuse and neglect while state systems meant to protect them collapse in plain sight.
By Jonathan Sharp | Jun 24, 2025
For a long time, firefighters in the United States were not covered by presumptive laws.
By Nickie McCarty | Jun 24, 2025
As I sat and watched the celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States Army on my television, my heart swelled with pride – and at the same time, ached with sorrow.
By Nickie McCarty | Jun 17, 2025
I was a four-sport varsity athlete, a girls’ volleyball and track coach, and a high school athletic director.
By Sarah Smith | Jun 17, 2025
I recently met Neeraja Deshpande, the 24-year-old author of the Independent Women’s Forum report “The Disjointed Reality in New Mexico: New Mexico Gender Policies Clash with Public Opinion.”
By Robert Witsenhausen | Jun 17, 2025
This year, I’ll be celebrating Flag Day along with most of my fellow Patriotic Americans. But some people in Santa Fe and around the state will be participating in the “No Kings” leftist day of protest.
By Pat Woods | Jun 11, 2025
As a seasoned lawmaker, I can tell you that proposed legislation is never going to fully satisfy everyone at the table.
By Sarah Smith | Jun 4, 2025
OPINION: The right to petition denied: How Las Cruces officials disregarded citizen voices
By Nickie McCarty | Jun 4, 2025
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:7–8 (KJV)
By Jim Townsend | May 31, 2025
Democrats are the best in the world at making terrible things sound great and positive things sound… devastating.
By Bob Ippel | May 31, 2025
The "Big Beautiful Bill" has sparked strong reactions across the political spectrum. However, amidst the debate, one provision stands out as a potential point of bipartisan agreement: the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA).
By Robert Witsenhausen | May 28, 2025
In my last column, I wrote about a grassroots petition drive to save single-family zoning in Las Cruces. I promised to give an update after the petition signatures were counted.
By Sarah Smith | May 28, 2025
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking action to ban the use of synthetic food dyes, including Red Dye 3, Yellow Dye 5, Blue Dye 1, and others. This is long overdue.
