This letter is provided as opinion/commentary from the authors. You can submit your own: editor@citydesk.org We created the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge hand-in-hand with Albuquerque’sSouth Valley community. In just one decade, lands that were once home to a dairyoperation next to a heavy industrial zone have blossomed into one of New Mexico’s mosttreasured […]
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FEMA Revamps New Mexico Operations
As Ruidoso area residents return to their homes — or what’s left of their homes — we’ll be watching FEMA. For the past two years, since the disastrous Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon Fire, we’ve heard more about what FEMA hasn’t done than what it has done. This year the agency began changing its New Mexico […]
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A New Voting Bloc for 2024: The Double Haters
A Washington Post election feature this week identified the emergence of a new group of voters that may decide the 2024 election. More prevalent in swing states, their common thread is this: they are skeptical/patently disappointed/furious that out of more than 300 million people, the best two people we have to stand for the office […]
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Letter to the Editor: UNM Sandoval RMC Can and Should Do Better
This letter is submitted as reader commentary by the author. Have an opinion? Of course you do! Send it to editor@sandovalsignpost.com or learn more here. One of the reasons my husband and I moved to Sandoval County was because it was near a hospital. We have had many occasions to use UNM Sandoval Regional Medical […]
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What’s Next for Spaceport America?
It was glamour and glitz again as Virgin Galactic sent its last space tourists into the heavens this month. Now the company will fade away for two years to build the next generation ship – not here but in Mesa, Arizona. What’s next for Spaceport America? Maybe it’s time to go back to Plan A. […]
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Who Wins, Who Loses
It’s hard to know who the biggest loser in the Hunter Biden trial might be. Hunter Biden, of course, who was convicted on three felony counts on June 11 by a jury of his Delaware peers, lost the legal case. Donald Trump lost something bigger; his complaints about two-tiered justice were stopped cold. During the […]
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Let’s Not Even Call This a Debate
At 7 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on June 27, more than four months before Election Day, Joe Biden and Donald Trump will spend 90 minutes on CNN airing rehearsed talking points in front of a moderator in two-minute soundbites in a studio empty but for the production crew and campaign staff. Happily, I will be […]
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Another Non Event High-Profile Felony Conviction
The President’s son, Hunter Biden, was convicted this week on three federal charges stemming from a 2018 handgun purchase where he was found to have lied on his application to purchase the firearm. Pretty much what we learned from the trial and speedy verdict is that Hunter Biden is a mess. There was very little […]
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Keeping Affordable Housing Affordable
I’m haunted by an online post I saw recently. A young woman said she’d been homeless for months and living in her car. She had lost her apartment because she couldn’t afford it. “Yes, I’m working,” she informed readers. A Good Samaritan had given her a camper shell, and she found a place to park […]
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Half Truths, Outright Lies and Gas Stoves
In a campaign season filled with distortions, half truths and outright lies, the least I can do is correct my own mistake. I made a factual error in my last column by writing that state House District 31 had three Republican candidates and no Democrat. I missed Vicky Estrada-Bustillo, Democratic candidate for that seat. The […]