How about a Trump-Sanders ticket?
Last week, on the night of Super Tuesday, one of my brothers who lives in Memphis, Tennessee called me up to talk about the presidential…
Opinion
Saying farewell to an unusual senator
She is a politician whose mantra could have been, Speak quietly and carry a small stick. “I don’t like political ugliness,” she asserts time and…
Municipal elections are making headlines
This week, the national news may be focused on Super Tuesday, but here in New Mexico, it’s municipal elections that are making headlines, with races…
Norma Jean Boyd 1932 – 2016
Norma Jean Boyd, 83, peacefully passed away on Feb. 19 in Moriarty. She was born July 12, 1932 in Albuquerque, to the late Zacharia…
Joy in Juárez
It’s not true that there’s no joy in Juárez. It is 9 o’clock on an unusually cold Friday morning in January. More than 100 people…
The charade is over; it’s time to create an ethics commission
After a proposal to create a state ethics commission died for the umpteenth time in the legislative session that ended last week, some members of…
Dispatch New Mexico: Good-government issue will resurface next session
One of the many bills to fall by the wayside in the just-past legislative session was House Bill 307, which would have reformed the way…
Asian Odyssey part 6:
Cambodia, a capitalist kingdom of Buddhists, and Vietnam, a Communist republic still heavily influenced by Chinese Confucianism, are about as different as two neighbors could…
Dispatch New Mexico: Behavioral health story gets new ‘legs’
Last week, Attorney General Hector Balderas announced that he had cleared 10 providers of behavioral health care services of any criminal wrongdoing. Both politically and…
Asia Odyssey, Part 5
Crossing the Mekong River from Thailand to Laos for a two-day trip downriver in a small boat, we didn’t really know what we would encounter….