Opinion

By Tom Wright Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part column series by Tom Wright, a regular contributor to El Rito Media, commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary. Such are the last words and pledge of the...
By Sherry RobinsonAll She Wrote As we observe the nation’s 250th anniversary, historians focus on the East Coast, but New Mexico has proud moments too. Return with me to 1851, when New Mexico became a territory of...

Is the State of California Reaching Critical Mass?

Victor Davis HansonTribune Content Agency By any measure, California is a failed state--and a national embarrassment.Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in...

Let the Haters Hate

By Javier Sanchez The problem with revolutionaries is that they’re revolutionary. They are misunderstood, misfits in their own right and time. Revolutionaries are doubted –...

Is Removal of Trump’s Name From Kennedy Center a Metaphor?

Cal ThomasTribune Content Agency In what could be a metaphor for things to come, workers removed President Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center in Washington....

The Educational Querencia New Mexico Cannot Afford to Lose

By Herbert Soriano GarciaGuest Column In New Mexico, the word querencia carries a special kind of weight. It means more than belonging, that word means...

Yogi’s Fork, New Mexico

By Jose Garcia As Yogi Berra famously said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it!” At the bottom of the barrel...

Don’t Trust Politicians Waving Bogeyman Problems

By Javier Sanchez Many years ago, someone told you that you can’t go any higher. Your belief lid was placed on your head, and for...

The Connection Between Politics and Failure

Cal ThomasTribune Content Agency Politics is the only profession of which I am aware in which competence doesn’t seem to matter. One can fail miserably;...

Report on Economic Development Incentives Incomplete

By Paul J. Gessing Recently the Legislative Finance Committee produced a report in which (to summarize the findings) they made the case that New Mexico...

Data Centers Can Work for Local Communities

By Sherry RobinsonAll She Wrote Can we have a rational discussion of data centers?I was hoping this could happen in Socorro, where New Mexico Tech...

Tom Wright: New Mexico Rep. Susan Herrera angers candidates for District 41, Rio Arriba County Sheriff

District 41 includes portions of Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos Counties.

New Mexico Can’t Afford Permitting Paralysis

By Patrick M. BrennerSouthwest Public Policy Institute President Donald Trump has made restoring affordability a national priority, and early signs show that approach is working....

Follow the Money, if You Can Find It

By Marjorie ChildressNew Mexico In Depth Earlier this week I wrote about two dark money groups trying to influence several primary races. Accountable New Mexico...

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