Session balances budget, but just barely
Lawmakers are returning to Santa Fe on Tuesday, May 30, two days before my filing deadline for...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Jun 1, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
Lawmakers are returning to Santa Fe on Tuesday, May 30, two days before my filing deadline for...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | May 8, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
There’s an issue rising to the surface in New Mexico, over some boreholes the Department of Energy...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Mar 30, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
A few weeks back, in the depths of New Mexico’s legislative session, I wrote that the governor and...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Mar 10, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
Gather ‘round, young’uns, for a lesson in politics and government. Now is a good time, since our...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Mar 2, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
Hold on to your hat, we’re closing in on the final couple of weeks of this 2017 New Mexico...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Feb 22, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
Alexander Hamilton was a great American. How do I know? Hip-hop, baby! I haven’t felt this cool in...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Feb 16, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
Buried inside nearly a thousand proposals introduced so far this legislative session is a measure...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Feb 8, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
Before Berkeley, there was University of New Mexico. Same scheduled speaker, very different...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Jan 25, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
Since we’re now entering the dubious era of President Donald Trump, and since my profession is now...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Jan 18, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
Forget the honeymoon, Donald Trump is already unpopular. According to Gallup in a poll taken in...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Jan 12, 2017 | Opinion | 0 |
Lock up your cash, bar the doors and hide the booze: The Legislature is about to come to order....
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Dec 14, 2016 | Opinion | 0 |
Every weekend, I (or a proxy, if I want the weekend off) go through well over a dozen New Mexico...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Nov 30, 2016 | Opinion | 0 |
Let’s define some terms, by definition and contemporary implication. With each word or phrase,...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Nov 18, 2016 | Opinion | 0 |
Let’s talk about the kids in the aftermath of this presidential election. Little people have big...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Nov 3, 2016 | Opinion | 0 |
Back in my 20s, when dinosaurs roamed the land, I coached basketball in an inner-city league in...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Oct 27, 2016 | Opinion | 0 |
The Republican Party rules the roost here in southeastern New Mexico. Donald Trump for president,...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Oct 19, 2016 | Opinion | 0 |
Television created him. Now it’s being left to newspapers to rein him in. I’m talking about Donald...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Oct 7, 2016 | Opinion | 0 |
Sometimes I wonder why the hell I stick with the newspaper business. The pay’s lousy, the hours...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Sep 29, 2016 | Opinion | 0 |
Any day now, if she hasn’t already, Gov. Susana Martinez will call lawmakers to Santa Fe for a...
Read Moreby Leota Harriman | Sep 22, 2016 | Opinion | 0 |
Take a deep breath, I tell myself, it’s only campaign hyperbole. We’ve witnessed election-year...
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