December 14, 2025
Opinion

A community’s unbreakable spirit
The response from our community has been nothing short of inspiring.
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BBB is not the tragedy our politicians portray
New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham and the entire Congressional delegation also unsurprisingly opposed the BBB.
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Politics in the pulpit
On one level this is a freedom of speech issue, but not all freedoms are necessarily worth exercising.
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Red tape and indifference slow disaster recovery
The Village of Ruidoso is still rebuilding from last year’s fires and floods, reported Source New Mexico.
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Selling the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
The Wall Street Journal cites a poll by Quinnipiac University and Fox News that shows opposition to the new law outweighs support by 20 percent.
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Trump challenges the unconquerable Seminole Nation
Alligator Alcatraz has caused President Donald Trump, DeSantis, and others within the MAGA establishment to become giddy in recent days.
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Why is this dark money group fighting healthcare reform?
Earlier this year, an investigative journalist at Searchlight New Mexico unearthed unethical and misleading behavior by NMSOP and revealed deep ties between NMSOP and the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association, whose members feel threatened by the proposed reforms.
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Living day-to-day with a “busload of faith”
Trip Jennings
A friend who wrote searing, sometimes grisly Facebook posts as he dug out from Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic destruction around Asheville, N.C. last autumn took to the social media platform this weekend.
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Corrupt nincompoops, toadies and public servants
Western New Mexico University has now been investigated by four state agencies and sued by two of them.
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Let heroes be heroes
Recently, I stood in the smoke-shadowed foothills near the Gila, watching the Hotshot crews return from another 16-hour shift fighting the Trout Fire.
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