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By Charles Sullivan | Sep 21, 2022
Although NM legislators are the only state legislators in the country not to receive a salary (they do receive a per diem living expense), if they serve at least 10 years, they receive a golden parachute retirement.
By Sarah Smith | Sep 9, 2022
On September 6, the Las Cruces City Council and Mayor voted unanimously to allow recreational marijuana to be sold right next to New America School, despite the fact that the City Ordinance calls for a minimum buffer distance of 300 feet between a school and a marijuana dispensary.
By Stephan Helgesen | Sep 7, 2022
There was a time when the millions of huddled masses yearning to breathe free were grateful for the opportunity to make the long ocean voyage to the shores of the New World.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Sep 6, 2022
In the past several months I have posted articles with one overriding theme, “Loss of Freedom”.
By Sarah Smith | Aug 22, 2022
The CDC recently changed their COVID-19 guidance with an update that the unvaccinated should no longer be treated differently than the vaccinated.
By Stephan Helgesen | Aug 18, 2022
It's time to rise up from your easy chair and stop shouting at the TV every time you hear words like gender equity, CRT, election deniers, climate change and extremist ultra MAGAns.
By Bernadette Valadez | Aug 15, 2022
Personal tragedy is how I learned that it is not registered gun owners who are the problem in America. It is those who buy illegal guns for nefarious reasons.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Aug 12, 2022
How much freedom are the Citizens of New Mexico willing to give up in exchange for security, provided by dictates from Santa Fe and “free” (Paid for by the taxpayer) stuff?
By Doug Truax | Aug 12, 2022
Transparency fosters trust. That’s why we read food labels and check out the deed to the house we’re buying. And, in New Mexico’s election system, it’s why the law allows you to inspect voter registration records.
By Rebecca Dow | Aug 9, 2022
Back in 2018, a state district judge issued an historic decision identifying the long-time shortcomings and faults of New Mexico’s Public Education System
By Renee Grout | Aug 5, 2022
I can’t think of any topic in the last 50 years that has been more divisive than legalized abortion.
By Pete Dinelli | Jul 22, 2022
On May 19 and July 19, APD officials proclaimed they had a 97% homicide clearance rate for 2022 with 47 suspects arrested, charged or identified in 40 recent and past homicide cases. The 97% figure is very misleading.
By Stephan Helgesen | Jul 20, 2022
A few centuries ago people from many ethnic backgrounds flocked to America to find a safe place where they could practice their religion and live among people who believed in a peaceful and tolerant approach to community living.
By Pete Dinelli | Jul 12, 2022
It has been reported that APD Lieutenant Jim Edison who was fired in November 2021 for overtime pay abuse has been reinstated by the city pursuant to a settlement reached between Edison and the City.
By Jim Crawford | Jul 12, 2022
I am strongly in favor of the Valencia County overlay zone approval. We need more oil and gas exploration not less. It will be a great boost to the county's economy.
By Anni Hanna | Jul 11, 2022
Oil and gas billionaire Harvey Yates, Jr. is giddy at the prospect of drilling in Valencia County, ignoring well-documented research on how oil and gas extraction harms health, causes air pollution and water contamination and climate warming greenhouse emissions.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Jul 8, 2022
Surely, all of us feel like our heads are going to explode!
By Pete Dinelli | Jul 5, 2022
Every 10 years, the Albuquerque City Charter requires that the Council appoint a committee composed of an equal number of representatives from each Council District to review and make recommendations redistricting each City Council Districts based on information from the Federal Census
By Carla Sonntag | Jul 1, 2022
This Independence Day, July 4th, we celebrate 245 years of freedom from England.
By Zac Fort | Jun 27, 2022
In New Mexico, we are already a shall-issue state. Therefore, we won’t see any immediate impact on our gun laws as a result of the ruling. But the state is prohibited from attempting to move our concealed carry laws from their current form to a may-issue regime
