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Commentary: Not every loss from the Hermit’s Peak Fire fits on a receipt

Guest Commentary By Brian Colón, NM Managing Partner, Singleton Schreiber — FEMA has spent years arguing that the law Congress passed to compensate Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon (HPCC) Fire victims only covers losses with a price tag, for example a home, a fence, a business, or a medical bill. Everything else, in FEMA’s reading, doesn’t count. Brian Colón is the managing partner […]

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Commentary: New Mexico’s free childcare built on deceit, dirty secrets

Guest commentary by Paul Gessing — Even during what has been a very busy summer news cycle New Mexico’s recently created universal “free” childcare system has remained in the news. National media cheered the program’s creation and the first-in-America expansion of government, but the true story of New Mexico’s universal “free” childcare program is more troubling […]

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Commentary: Schardin Clarke is wrong about the income tax

Guest commentary by Paul Gessing — Recently, Stephanie Schardin Clarke, New Mexico Secretary of Taxation and Revenue, wrote an article slamming Republican efforts to eliminate New Mexico’s personal income tax. She makes numerous points, but they boil down to two: 1) We simply should not cut taxes, especially for the wealthy. 2) New Mexico cannot afford to […]

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Commentary: Unions deserve job-creating Democrats. Unions deserve permitting reform.

Commentary by Robert Lujan, Albuquerque — As a decade long Local 214 executive board member, I worked to elect Democrats alongside the larger brotherhood I proudly support as they push for permitting reform. My brothers in the trades need common sense leadership at the federal and local levels… now. Commentary Robert Lujan is a retired […]

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Opinion: It’s time for Sandoval County to adopt an independent redistricting commission

Submitted by Frank James Smith Jr.  Every ten years, following the U.S. Census, election district maps are redrawn to reflect population changes. Those boundaries determine who represents us on the Sandoval County Commission for the next decade, making the process one of local government’s most important responsibilities. In 2021, Sandoval County adopted new commission districts […]

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