Opinion

This year the City of Artesia has a unique opportunity to vote for two men who exemplify the meaning of Service. Terry Todd and Joseph “Woody” Wright are running for Mayor and City Council. 

Legislators, feeling sorry for themselves, also helped themselves to taxpayer money to provide for a legislative assistant for each one, a move touted loudly by legislators as a step in “professionalizing” the legislature.

It seems like a decade has happened this past month, from Nicolás Maduro being captured in Venezuela to President Trump’s rhetoric on the conquest of Greenland. Maduro says he was kidnapped. Some say it was a misuse of military power. The EU nations claim President Trump is destroying NATO to assuage his ego, which is demanding Greenland come under U.S. control. Like it or not, politics has always been and remains a power game of negotiations.

Over the past seven years, we already have achieved remarkable expansion of child care services across our state with bipartisan support and phased growth.

 These report cards are designed to provide families, educators, and neighbors with a transparent look at how we are collectively serving our students and where we can join forces to make educational improvements and champion the overall success of schools.

Our state is a special place to live and work. In recent years, we’ve seen opportunities that create multi-generational benefits.

Tired, stretched healthcare workers make more mistakes and become ever more vulnerable to New Mexico’s predatory medical malpractice lawyers.

There are two taboo facts that New Mexico’s television stations and major newspapers almost never discuss. The first is that no state in the United States has had single- party Democratic rule at the state level longer than New Mexico.

This column is going to cover the process by which capital outlay money is brought back into local communities.

Six years ago, the average New Mexico teacher earned $180 more than the average New Mexico state employee.