The U.S. House Committee on Agriculture recently delivered a draft farm bill. It was eight months after the old farm bill, about to expire, had to be extended. This $1.5 trillion, 942-page tome has a lot to like, but it’s missing some key provisions important to New Mexico. And it’s hung up in partisan scrapping. […]
Tierna Unruh-Enos
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Do Your Research Before You Vote
“We need bold solutions, drastic overhauls and serious reforms,” writes a candidate for the Legislature in an op-ed article. Bold, huh? Boy, that’s new and exciting. Oh, wait. It isn’t. It’s a standard cliché for everybody who runs for office. This particular candidate wrote an entire op-ed filled with platitudes and generalizations. Not a single […]
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Letter to the Editor: Rebuttal Response to Op-Ed on Produced Water
Submitted by Steve Conrad, Ph.D. groundwater hydrology The recent op-ed by Sherry Robinson entitled “Step into the future with Produced Water” exhorts us to “trust technology and step into the future.” The problem with her premise is that the oil and gas wastewater treatment technology she suggests that we trust is unproven to be even […]
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Letter to the Editor: Rebuttal Response to Op-Ed on Produced Water
Submitted by Steve Conrad, Ph.D. groundwater hydrology The recent op-ed by Sherry Robinson entitled “Step into the future with Produced Water” exhorts us to “trust technology and step into the future.” The problem with her premise is that the oil and gas wastewater treatment technology she suggests that we trust is unproven to be even […]
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Primary Season Isn’t Over, But General Election Issues Are Taking Shape
A natural outcome of certain states moving their presidential primaries earlier in the year is that for those states with later primaries, primary election turnout is often dismal. That will likely be the case in New Mexico in 2024 where both presidential frontrunners have locked in their delegate count and there are few contested primary […]
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Primary Season Isn’t Over, But General Election Issues Are Taking Shape
A natural outcome of certain states moving their presidential primaries earlier in the year is that for those states with later primaries, primary election turnout is often dismal. That will likely be the case in New Mexico in 2024 where both presidential frontrunners have locked in their delegate count and there are few contested primary […]
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Edgewood Commission Hopes to Get Abortion Referendum on the Ballot. Again.
The Edgewood Commission is taking steps to approve putting an anti-abortion referendum on the ballot for the third time. At a meeting set for 6 p.m. May 30, commissioners are expected to vote on a resolution directing the town clerk to issue a proclamation for a special all-mail-in vote election. If approved, residents of Edgewood […]
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Edgewood Commission Hopes to Get Abortion Referendum on the Ballot. Again.
The Edgewood Commission is taking steps to approve putting an anti-abortion referendum on the ballot for the third time. At a meeting set for 6 p.m. May 30, commissioners are expected to vote on a resolution directing the town clerk to issue a proclamation for a special all-mail-in vote election. If approved, residents of Edgewood […]
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Charles McKinnis
Charles McKinnis, 87, beloved son, husband, father, step-father, grandfather (Opa), and father-in-law, was called to heaven on May 16, 2024. He entered this world on January 23, 1937, in Lamar, Colorado, born to Harvey and Grace McKinnis. He is survived by his spouse, Gloria Clift of Albuquerque, New Mexico; son David McKinnis of Littleton, Colorado; […]
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Charles McKinnis
Charles McKinnis, 87, beloved son, husband, father, step-father, grandfather (Opa), and father-in-law, was called to heaven on May 16, 2024. He entered this world on January 23, 1937, in Lamar, Colorado, born to Harvey and Grace McKinnis. He is survived by his spouse, Gloria Clift of Albuquerque, New Mexico; son David McKinnis of Littleton, Colorado; […]