Opinion

It’s only February and other than the almost nonstop coverage of the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping story, especially cable networks are obsessed with the November election, though it is more than eight months away. So much can - and likely will - change before then. Why all the attention?

The Clear Horizons Act was another of those bills we’ve seen so often in New Mexico that balances the environment against the economy.

Thankfully, we have passed the halfway point.

After eight years of Michelle Lujan Grisham’s governorship, New Mexicans are aware of the bleak reality.

Election season is officially underway in Artesia.

For more than a century, New Mexico Highlands University has been a place of access and possibility.

The Rio Grande Foundation has been clear in expressing support for a multi-pronged approach to improving our State’s roads

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.