January 29, 2026
Opinion

Opinion: Apathy won the runoff in Albuquerque
Tim Keller has won another term as mayor of Albuquerque, the first to be elected to a third term in our city’s history.
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Opinion: Legislature should health care worker compacts in 2026
The most immediate way that New Mexico lawmakers can expand access to health care is by joining all the interstate compacts for health care workers, which would make it easier for health care professionals who are licensed in other states to care for patients here in New Mexico, including via telehealth.
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Opinion: The (non-Christmas) lists
Most of the people Time considers influential I have never heard of, so they haven’t influenced me. Maybe it’s a generational thing.
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Commentary:Ah, the ‘70s – good vibes, fab food, nice prices
My man, my man, takin’ you outta sight with a tale that’s radical.
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Opinion: Is AI a good investment or just the next financial bubble about to pop?
For example, 18 years ago, I quit newspapers to help found New Mexico’s first online newspaper, the New Mexico Independent. A few years after that, I co-founded the state’s first digital nonprofit media outlet, New Mexico In Depth, in the aftermath of the 2008 economic collapse.
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Opinion: A Newsom nihilist nomination?
Newsom recently boasted that he extended Medi-Cal health insurance to thousands more illegal aliens.
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Policing fraud in New Mexico’s SNAP program
During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Texas and Oklahoma farmers who lost everything headed west. Before they joined the great exodus to California chronicled by John Steinbeck in “Grapes of Wrath,” they were hoping to find work picking cotton in New Mexico or harvesting beets in Colorado.
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Opinion:Raising the gasoline tax in New Mexico is unfair
Today New Mexicans, who buy gasoline as a needed fuel to get the kids to school, go to work, or to get their loved ones to a doctor, pay 17 cents per gallon on gasoline purchased.
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Opinion: Want to be a true patriot? Study the nation’s origin story
Our military takes an oath to uphold the Constitution. They don’t take an oath to a dictator.
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New Mexico’s economic freedom now dead last
In a study published earlier this year, we highlighted the fact that New Mexico was the only state in the US to have lost economic freedom since 1981. We now know that it is worse than we thought.
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