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I’m asking for help. The banners for our veterans at the end of Cerrillos Road mean so much to families. And there are so many more families who would like their veter…
Milan Simonich’s column is indeed just an opinion (“ ‘Kill Bill’ wasn’t just a movie; it’s a way of life,” Ringside Seat, Jan. 19). Apparently, Simonich is getting inf…
Almost 100 pedestrians died on New Mexico roads last year. While there are many causes, too many pedestrians are almost invisible and too many are incautious. Too many…
Kudos to The New Mexican and reporter Scott Wyland for his timely and important article (“State’s top water job remains vacant,”
Last week, the paper had an article about the Center for COVID Control (“Testing site draws scrutiny,” Jan. 14). This article matched my experience exactly. There were…
The state of New Mexico is benefiting from the over-collection of gross receipts tax, I believe. Effective July 1, 2021, New Mexico required online services/sellers to…
In the early 1990s, the city of Santa Fe planning staff saw the northwest quadrant, including Las Estrellas, as a way to flood the market with new homes, thus lowering…
The idea described in the editorial (“When it snows, it’s time to clear the sidewalks,” Our View, Jan. 4) that sidewalks are considered transportation corridors in a M…
Not again: The New Mexico Legislature and our governor are about to begin considering legislation that is being labeled “tough on crime.” This is a return to the disas…
My sister and her husband, Bonnie and Robert Hartwig, residents of Las Cruces, were killed in a tragic car crash July 25 in Albuquerque. It has been six months, and ou…
In the wake of so much climate-caused devastation, there is much we can do without waiting for leaders to come to their senses to prevent more temperature increases. T…
The planned power line construction for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s increased pit production (“Powering up LANL: The project needs explaining,” Our View, Jan. 2) …
I’m a retired community college English teacher and a mom. I fully support the decision of Santa Fe Public Schools Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez to keep school…
Re: Associated Press reporter Jake Coyle’s article (“Jan. 6, 2021: A national day of infamy, half remembered,” Jan. 6): The storming of the Capitol a year ago by Trump…
The Santa Fe City Council and Mayor Alan Webber will consider a proposed update to its procedural rules this month. Members of the League of Women Voters of Santa Fe C…
The letters have been modified to reflect the correct name of letter writer Ellen Stone, which was published as Ellen Brown in the print version.
Regarding the editorial (“Boulder fire warns of blazes to come in N.M.,” Our View, Jan. 3): The New Mexican outlined several steps for reducing wildfire risk but left …
Thank you, Santa Fe Police Department, for targeting speeders recently through my neighborhood of Casa Solana. It may seem a small thing, but too many “through-drivers…
As a third-generation Santa Fean, I am concerned about the number of apartments and construction projects I see around town. Why are we destroying our beautiful city? …
Regarding parents on the offensive (“From masks to book banning, conservatives take on educators,” Dec. 20) — I can’t speak to the titles that many parents and religio…
Regarding the editorial on the San Miguel chapel (“Historic chapel a reminder of faithful past,” Our View, Dec. 29), no mention was made that San Miguel was used as a …
Tuesday’s editorial on the airport expansion correctly noted the first part of Santa Fe that visitors from the Santa Fe Regional Airport see are fields of wrecked cars…
Two thousand years ago, when the Bhodisattva Vimilakirti was asked why he was ill, he replied, “I am sick because the whole world is sick.”
I hit the road at 6 a.m. on Christmas Day to drop off my son and daughter-in-law at the Albuquerque airport, and there was my paper carrier on his rounds. These folks …
Nobody wants surgery during a pandemic as a Christmas present, but my recent hip replacement experience at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center has been outstanding.
Three weeks ago I was pulling into the parking lot of an upscale downtown restaurant for lunch. I observed a man clearly “in distress,” to put it mildly. He was cursin…
The monthly child tax credit has expired, and we received our final payment of $250. The wonderful check that came on the 15th every month is gone. Financial help cari…
The radical right wing; the anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-immigrant crowd; the religious extremists; the promoters of violence and hatred; the lemming-like adorers o…
A reader says that individual members of the community should take the chance to care for their own nearby trees.
This is a copy of a letter sent to the legislative leadership of the New Mexico House and Senate. Transparency is at the heart of everything we do at the New Mexico Fo…
Over the weekend I read a commentary in The Santa Fe New Mexican opining the state lacked leadership when it came to regulating New Mexico’s lending industry (“Leaders…
Here are more suggestions for the federal relief funds received by the state of New Mexico:
I am thrilled the House passed the Build Back Better Act in November. Build Back Better will help 300,000 new low-income renter households finally get assistance to af…
If Public Service Company of New Mexico’s application to offload its share of the Four Corners coal plant to the Navajo Transitional Energy Company is approved, Navajo…
I often drive by the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place and observe numerous, presumably homeless people, on the outskirts of the building. Often there is po…
Fifteen Santa Fe County deputies are ignoring the motto stenciled on every law enforcement vehicle — “To protect and serve” — by refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
I am writing today to express my heartfelt gratitude to City Councilor and Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Fe Chief Professional Officer Roman “Tiger” Abeyta for spear…
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza stated there were consequences when deputies do not get vaccinated (“Time is running out for deputies to get jab,” Dec. 9).
While driving from Santa Fe to the southern Gulf Coast of Texas in the spring, we passed through the Permian Basin. Oil and gas wells, pipelines and tanks filled the h…
Sunday evening, my friends and I prepared and served meals at the Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place. When I drove up, I was shocked at the mess on Harrison …
I recently went to an event at the Lensic Performing Arts Center and parked my vehicle in the nearby parking garage. To my dismay, exiting the garage via the elevator,…
“Mom and son testing out his new Christmas present!” texted Jennifer Crumbley about the Seig Sauer pistol she and her husband gave their 15-year-old son and that he wo…
In the face of skyrocketing rents, seemingly endless development, increasing traffic congestion, and roads and neighborhoods unprepared to deal with it, particularly o…
The Genoveva Chavez Community Center Ice Arena is a wonderful place for families to skate and exercise together and young kids to daydream they are princes and princes…
I subscribe to The Santa Fe New Mexican, which I read with morning coffee to stay informed. Lately, it has been a difficult read. Stories about increased crime, climat…
The New Mexican published a piece (“State’s top water official shouldn’t have to be an engineer,” My View, Nov. 21) by Denise Fort and Sally Rodgers. They presented a …
As former librarians and library directors at the College of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, we are writing this in response to John Gordon’s l…
The Pete’s Place location of the Interfaith Community Shelter always was much too small — it’s a tight squeeze, with the men’s and women’s sleeping areas; kitchen and…
Advocating for unproven medical treatments without disclaimers is irresponsible, Jeri Sullivan Graham, Ph.D., of Los Alamos says.
AARP New Mexico applauds Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for including the elimination of the state tax on Social Security benefits among her prio…
Every year, the issue of teacher salary is in the public dialogue and is often presented to the Legislature for consideration. Of course, it i…
I moved to the Tiempos Lindos neighborhood back when some 90 acres of open land stretched along the entire length of Morning Drive.
Legislators have recently prompted an overdue discussion of the best way to achieve New Mexico’s electric sector decarbonization goals.
So, what was all that hoopla about hydrogen from the gallery during the governor’s State of the State address? Hydrogen is the clean, green fu…
New Mexicans are struggling with the consequences of dry water years and a warming climate.
We are survivors who were victimized by juvenile offenders. This letter responds to a recent op-ed in which author Marc Levin advocates for a …
I am writing this on Martin Luther King Day. That is a day that inspires dreams great and small, vast or modest. My dream starts with a touch …
This legislative session, we can bring over $470 million in clean energy investments and close to 4,000 jobs to New Mexico all within the next…
Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one?
School funding is complicated. In our state, it seems as if we often don’t have enough money to actually run our schools properly or pay teach…
The New Mexico chile is the heart and soul of our state’s culture and is the state’s iconic agricultural commodity. During the 1990s, the New …
We often envision expansive vistas, wild and untouched landscapes, and rich biological diversity when we think of our public lands. But far to…
It is difficult to miss the articles and editorials in The Santa Fe New Mexican and other media outlets reporting about Harrison Road, the str…
We as New Mexicans can be proud of the fact that our state has taken some dramatic action in the fight against climate change. In 2019, the Le…
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