Opinion & Columns

Jordan: New Mexico Is Right To Hold Out For Higher Prices For Its Most Valuable Commodity

By BILL JORDAN 
New Mexico Voices for Children

New Mexico is a land with many valuable assets – from our rich cultural diversity to our stunning physical beauty, to our mineral wealth. These assets belong to us all and while it’s impossible to put a price on some of them – our culture and natural landscape, to be precise – we can and do put a price on our mineral wealth. And that price needs to be fair so that we are all receiving the benefit of the bounty beneath our feet.

That’s why we support State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard’s pause on certain leases on land in the Permian Basin. Commissioner Read More

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Gibson: Large-scale Solar Power Is Coming To Los Alamos

By ROBERT GIBSON
Chair
Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities

By late 2026, the majority of Los Alamos’s electric power will come from the sun! The County recently inked a 20-year deal to purchase power from a large photovoltaic field and battery bank to be built a few miles northwest of Farmington.

Remarkably, the new solar power will cost LESS than the coal- and gas-based power it replaces.

The project, called Foxtail Flats (the County did not name it), is being built near Farmington where it can tie into the electric transmission system formerly used by San Juan Generating Station. That Read More

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Weekly Fishing Report: March 27, 2024

By GEORGE MORSE
Sports And Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post

This is the last week that you can legally fish using your current license. The new 2024-2025 license season begins April 1 (Monday). It will expire March 31, 2025.

Licenses can be obtained online or pur hated at license vendors throughout the state. They can also be purchased at State Department of Game and Fish offices.

If you currently have a Colorado fishing license, the same dates will apply.

Streamflows are slowly rising. Spring runoff has yet to really begin and is likely to still be several weeks away. It look like it will start peaking Read More

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Denish: Interesting Matchups In Primary Filings

By DIANE DENISH
Corner to Corner
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

It’s election year. This year all 112 seats in the New Mexico Legislature are up for grabs. 

That isn’t totally accurate because 37 of those candidates have no opposition in either the primary or the general. No one else is “grabbing” for those seats. 

On the Republican side, nine House seats and nine Senate seats have competitive races. For Democrats there are 15 completive House primaries and 11 competitive primaries on the Senate side. 

Competitive primaries are created by numerous factors. This year, there have been a number Read More

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Gessing: Land Commissioner Is Right – New Mexico Oil And Gas Boom Will Continue

By PAUL J. GESSING
President
Rio Grande Foundation

Recently, Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard, after pushing the Legislature for a 25 percent tax hike on New Mexico oil and gas producers made the decision to pull those “highly valuable” tracts of land and not lease them. That decision has raised concerns that her actions may violate her fiduciary responsibility to maximize revenues from the lands under her control.

Garcia Richard told the Albuquerque Journal, “It’s worth it to temporarily forgo the dollars (from leasing immediately) to make billions more in the future by leasing Read More

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Robinson: War Veterans Join Public Debate Over Monuments

By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

On Indigenous Peoples Day 2020 in broad daylight, a mob of vandals tore down the 154-year-old Soldier’s Monument in the center of Santa Fe Plaza because it was offensive to some Native Americans. Now veterans groups are demanding it be restored.

The destruction followed months of controversy that was notable for its absence of historical fact. Nobody seemed to know the obelisk honored Union soldiers, many of them Hispanic, who died in New Mexico’s two Civil War battles. But there was plenty of vitriol directed at one word that’s been Read More

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