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Lawmakers Should Weigh Burdens to Smallest Businesses
The man was said to be the only electrician in Mora, and my agency forced him out of business. This was around 20 years ago. I learned about it in […]
The High Cost of Self-checkout
If you do grocery shopping for your family, you have undoubtedly used self-checkout. That’s what I was doing recently when shopping for two items in a nearby store. I noticed […]
Apodaca Wants to Help Moderates
Democrats’ notion of their party as the big tent is suffering as hard line progressives target moderates in the primary. It’s been widely reported that progressives have primaried every state […]
Why You Should Care About the Federal Debt
Does everyone in your household have a spare $102,000 lying around? Because that’s what it will take to clear our federal debt: $102,000 from every woman, man and child in […]
Trail Mix: Adventure to Cabezon Peak
Trail Mix is a monthly column featuring off-the-beaten-path adventures in New Mexico. Rising over 1,100 feet from the Rio Puerco Valley, Cabezon Peak dominates this remote and rugged valley just […]
New Mexico Is Neither a Blue Nor a Red State
I am doing a couple of interviews this week to provide a Republican perspective on New Mexico politics in 2024. That might seem amusing to some of you who perceive […]
Primary Election is Coming Right Up
New Mexico’s primary election is a few weeks away, on June 4. As attentive voters know, in New Mexico the primary election is at least as important as the general. […]
Historians Look at Oñate
In history we find things that make us feel uncomfortable, said Jon Ghahate, a Laguna and Zuni pueblo educator. “Sometimes it’s very challenging. For New Mexico it’s embedded in everything […]
What Do You Stand For? What Time Is It?
So it’s been a pretty exciting week in Washington. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s legislative package for the most part passed on a bipartisan vote, with the exception of […]