Think New Mexico: Why Is This Dark Money Group Fighting Healthcare Reform?
By FRED NATHAN JR.
Executive Director
Think New Mexico
Recently the New Mexico Ethics Commission sued a secretive, dark money group calling itself New Mexico Safety Over Profits (NMSOP) for violating state laws that require the disclosure of the source of funds used to influence legislation.
The lawsuit alleges that NMSOP spent tens of thousands of dollars on advertisements opposing medical malpractice reforms designed to center the needs of patients and bring down malpractice premiums for doctors, which are about twice as high in New Mexico as in our surrounding states.
Earlier this year, Read More
Daily Postcard: A Bumblebee Hunts For Pollen In Strikingly Pink Flowers
Daily Postcard: A bumblebee hunts for pollen in strikingly pink flowers in Western Area on Monday morning. Photo by Brint Perera Read More
Robinson: Corrupt Nincompoops, Toadies & Public Servants
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
Western New Mexico University has now been investigated by four state agencies and sued by two of them.
Former President Joseph Shepard’s actions have kept reporters busy tracking allegations of misspending at the Silver City institution. It’s a lesson in ethics for the state’s other institutions.
But I’m not convinced we see the whole picture.
Let’s talk about what’s come to light, and then we’ll peel back the layers.
In 2023 reporter Joshua Bowling of Searchlight New Mexico broke the story about overseas travel on the university dime by Shepard, university Read More
Dannemann: The Future Of Undeveloped Land
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2025 by Merilee Dannemann
President Joe Biden proposed to protect 30% of all the land in America from development. The proposal was expressed as an executive order, but it was more like a goal, because the intention was to reach the goal by the year 2030.
In working toward that goal, President Biden protected more land from development than any other president in American history.
The goal was not merely wise but visionary. It assumed, among other things, that our generation is not the last generation of humankind on earth, and the resources locked in undeveloped Read More
Heinmiller: Clever And Dishonest Plans For Making Money
By BILL HEINMILLER
Los Alamos
I start with a love story. Not long ago, I met the love of my life, a beautiful princess, online. She lived in Nigeria. She emailed her picture to me and said she loved me. It was love at first sight! All I needed to do to win her heart, she wrote, was wire her $10,000 to help her get her sizeable inheritance through the Nigerian bureaucracy. Then she would come to the US and give me not only her hand in marriage but also a reward of trunks filled with gems and diamonds for helping her out. What a deal! So, I promptly wired her the funds and began preparing our matrimonial home and nursery. Read More
Fr. Glenn: Not Yet…
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
So, we come to the end of a long Independence Day weekend—a time of celebration and rejoicing in our freedoms and our nation, and yet this year terribly marred by the tragedy of a number of young girls and others lost in flooding down in Texas. People inevitably ask at such times: “Why does God allow this?!!” … a question for which we have no adequate response—the mystery of human suffering. Even if we had some irrefutable answer for it, parents and family are in no condition to receive it with wounds so fresh and so deep.
And yet, in our faith, we have little doubt that such little innocents Read More
McQuiston: Happy 4th Of July From Jemez Insurance Agency
By ALLEN MCQUISTON
Jemez Insurance Agency
Serving Los Alamos Since 1963
As we gather for fireworks, cookouts, and time with the people we love, we just want to take a moment to say something simple:
We’re thankful.
Thankful for the freedoms we get to enjoy every day.
Thankful for the communities we’re lucky enough to serve.
And thankful for the chance to live in a country where we get to build lives, families, and futures — together.
This time of year is always a good reminder of what really matters: the people around us, the peace we feel at home, and the small comforts that let us focus on what’s important.
