Robinson: Farm Bill Advocates To Congress – Get A Move On
By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
The House Agriculture Committee recently delivered a draft farm bill. It was eight months after the old farm bill, about to expire, had to be extended. This $1.5 trillion, 942-page tome has a lot to like, but it’s missing some key provisions important to New Mexico. And it’s hung up in partisan scrapping.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and House Dems chided the committee for cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, by $30 billion over 10 years. The program (formerly food stamps) helps more than 40 million Read More
Bernstein: Value
By CHRISTINE BERNSTEIN
Los Alamos
I went to the board recently for reasons I am not discussing here…maybe another time.
The high school has a program called School of Choice, or SOC. It has existed for at least 20 years, maybe more. It was in progress when I began teaching at the High School in 2004.
Four students presented the program while their teachers sat in the audience. This was telling. The teachers were 100% confident in their student’s ability to present the program to the board and the public.
Briefly, it is a school program that students apply to. It consists of four core content areas. Read More
Dannemann: Do Your Research Before You Vote
Correction: In Merilee Dannemann’s column, she stated incorrectly that no Democrat was running in the House District 31 race. Vicky Estrada-Bustillo, a Democrat, is running in that district. We apologize for the error.
By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2024 New Mexico News Services
“We need bold solutions, drastic overhauls and serious reforms,” writes a candidate for the Legislature in an op-ed article.
Bold, huh? Boy, that’s new and exciting. Oh, wait. It isn’t. It’s a standard cliché for everybody who runs for office.
This particular candidate wrote an entire op-ed filled with Read More
Posts From The Road: Red Rock Country In Sedona, Ariz.
Cathedral Rock: Cathedral Rock viewed from the hiking trail at Crescent Moon Park in Sedona, Ariz. The trail opens up to a large flat red rock landing, which sits next to Oak Creek giving hikers this view of the rocks. This formation is one of the most popular of the many red rock formations in Sedona. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Red Rock Country: A wider view of the valley in Sedona illustrates several of the formations which are seen in every direction around town. This unique town sits in one of the most beautiful areas with panoramic vistas from most any point in town. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com Read More
Fr. Glenn: Requiescat In Pace
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Rather an even more poignant and solemn Memorial Day than usual this year, for in a few days after the observance of it we come to the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the invasion of the Normandy beaches by the Allies on June 6, 1944.
One might glimpse the horror of that and of other battles in video productions such as “Saving Private Ryan” and “Band of Brothers”, but no video can possibly produce the feelings … the sights, smells and sounds … of all-out battles. We who have been spared such experiences should be ever grateful to those who have not been so fortunate, as well as to those who Read More
Tales Of Our Times: Notorious Smogs In Donora And Desert Parks Keyed Air Research
Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water, Inc.
Our citizens group learned the ways of air issues, inside and out. Large issues are part history, law, science, business, and emotions. Each of these has its own jargon, which impedes the exchange of information. Clean air made headway after events helped break these barriers. A notorious case was Donora.
Donora was a hilly town of industrious folks on a horseshoe bend in the Monongahela River 24 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Donora and nearby Webster were home to U.S. Steel Corporation’s Donora Zinc Works Read More
All Shall Be Well: Happy Holy Trinity Sunday!
Clergy from left, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill, Rector, Trinity on the Hill, Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired; Associate Priest Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By Pastor Nicolé Raddu Ferry
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Happy Holy Trinity Sunday! Wait. What? Pastor Deb Beloved shared last week that many of our churches were celebrating Pentecost, and we focused on being under the influence of the Spirit. Holy Spirit, that is 😊. And to continue the theme of being bewildered this week, many of our churches will focus on the Read More
