By Rick Kraft The classic 1970s movie “Love Story” featured a popular line: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” This concept may have worked for the big screen, but it is totally wrong and does not work in real life. To use “love” as an excuse not to apologize would ultimately result in the […]
By Rick Kraft — Imagine: The voting polls opened, but no one showed up to vote. The voting polls opened, but no one showed up to vote. Why should they? The average voter leads a busy life. There are more important things to do: groceries to buy, children to transport, phone calls to make and […]
Corner to Corner by Columnist Diane D. Denish — Farewell Dolly Parton. May you rest in peace and may your melodies ring in our hearts, at our weddings, at our funerals, and all our celebrations where an angel on earth is always welcome. Corner to Corner Diane Denish is a former lieutenant governor of New Mexico. […]
Corner to Corner by Columnist Diane D. Denish — Recently, I listened to the historical fiction novel The Frozen River, based on the life of Martha Ballard. Her life is chronicled in The Midwife’s Diary, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. From 1785 to 1812, Ballard recorded the weather and daily life in Hallowell, […]
Running a gubernatorial campaign requires coalition-building between state and federal government and the private sector. Commentary Jon Lipshutz is a politcal consultant who most recently served as the campaign manager for Sam Bregman’s campaign for governor. It requires an understanding of where your state currently ranks economically, and a plan to take your state where […]
Corner to Corner by Columnist Diane D. Denish — New Mexico has just landed on another list. According to a recent report by Stateline, highlighted by the online publication The Candle, New Mexico is now one of 17 states where there are more people over age 65 than children under 18. I checked the source […]
Columnist Sasha Abramsky in The Paper. — When I was sixteen, I traveled with a friend from England to the East Coast of the United States. Relying on the hospitality of relatives and family friends, we dotted up and down the coasts, and a few places in between, in two months exploring this vast Country. We […]
There is so much good news about Universal Free Child Care in New Mexico that I’m puzzled by the handful of people who seem determined to focus on why we can’t do it—whether through lawsuits or social media criticism. Corner to Corner Diane Denish is a former lieutenant governor of New Mexico. She is a […]
By Merilee Dannemann, Columnist – “The next governor must be laser focused on lifting New Mexico out of multigenerational poverty—the driver of all of our societal problems.” I am borrowing that line from a social media comment about the governor’s race. Triple Spaced Again Merilee Dannemann is a longtime New Mexico journalist. She has written […]
If New Mexico legislators were paid a salary, what would you expect them to do that they have not been doing up till now? Triple Spaced Again Merilee Dannemann is a longtime New Mexico journalist. Her columns are posted at www.triplespacedagain.com. Comments are invited through her web site. New Mexico is the only state legislature […]
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