As the world watches the Tokyo Olympics, our thoughts turn to the international peace and cooperation the games have come to symbolize. Each of us, in the administrati…
During the pandemic, Communities in Schools did the front-line work of providing critical basic needs to students and families.
This is a story of subterfuge and government at its worst.
Amid the escalating protests over water shortages in Iran’s oil-producing Khuzestan province, government officials in Tehran are unable to fall back on the old excuse …
It's been a tough year for Trump. The Capitol survived, and the Cleveland Indians are fading away.
Everybody thinks their issue is underreported by media, and the truth is, they’re often right.
This post-pandemic reentry feels incredibly strange to me.
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” said Alexander Pope in 1733.
An extended delay in responding to a senatorial inquiry is two months, not almost two years.
Caitlyn Jenner hopes to become the latest in a line of famous Olympians to win a statewide or congressional office.
I drove the few miles to the caller's house, and there was Toby, playing in a pond with two Labradors. He had crossed one county road, two swamps, and a busy golf course to hang out with these two water dogs.
Native American households are 19 times more likely than those of white people to lack indoor plumbing.
The tie vote means Rachel Gudgel keeps her $131,000-a-year job as director of the Legislative Education Study Committee.
Attorneys, judges, bureaucrats and bean counters throughout New Mexico all have a stake in what’s happened on the streets of Santa Fe in the past month.
Mayor Alan Webber faces criticism for promoting a city cooldown event with the fire department as part of his reelection bid.
El Día de San Juan had come and gone de manera que that meant que soon los días comenzaban a recortarse. With the days getting shorter y las noches haciéndose más larg…
The world lost a giant in affordable housing with the passing of Ted Swisher on July 8 after an on-again, off-again struggle with cancer. I was privileged to call him …
A part of the transition as we reenter the post-pandemic world is processing what we have been through.
In scrolling back just through the last 12 months of New Mexico sports clippings, it's remarkable we even got this far without losing it.
Santa Fe's mayor, who happens to be running for reelection, highlighted himself as a featured participant in city events that initially did not include him.
I really thought I was done with Facebook, and for all the right reasons, large and small.
Tango, a friendly guy with a big personality, was adopted on April 7 by Colorado residents Brandi and Ron, who asked that their last name not be printed, after they fe…
It’s always the athletes lugging the mop, rubber gloves and disinfectant into the Olympics.
These types of meals remind me of my Italian family and the way their tables pulsed and pulled like a magnet, welcoming all who wandered in for a visit
Paul Milosevich has donated all his personal papers, including the daily diary he kept for 50 years, to Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection.
Community schools support unique strategies that are relevant to the location of the school, the needs of the children enrolled in the school and their families.
"The restorative justice process is not a 'secret system,' " Carmack-Altwies wrote, typing the sentence twice in four paragraphs to emphasize her disagreement with my description.
Be sure to keep your feeders well stocked with high-fat and high-protein foods that will give birds a boost and keep them healthy for the coming year.
The man in the bright green T-shirt walked with his right hand on his wife’s shoulder, his eyes in a semipermanent squint even in the darkened room. Their two children…
Al fin summer had come y todas las cosas estaban en bloom. Los árboles estaban all green con muchas hojas and so were the plants en el jardín. Ese verano had the promi…
Everybody knows if you can’t afford to buy a house you have to rent, right? Wrong, says Santa Fe's Mike Loftin, a national expert on first-time homebuying.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is drawing plenty of opposition, while Congresswoman Yvette Herrell has none is giving Republicans a faint hope of winning the governor's office.
Despite what anyone in Artesia, Raton, or Truth or Consequences might think, a failure to compete in the Duke City means a failure to compete statewide.
It is important that both the outside and inside of a building are accessible.
Theatergoers this season will find the familiar safety precautions we’ve all become accustomed to during the pandemic, such as social distancing, plexiglass and masks.
At 6-feet-8, Spencer Haywood was no taller than a couple of dozen other prospective Olympians. He simply was better.
During a snowstorm in October, Dr. Tom Parker, veterinarian at Española Humane, was driving to work when he saw a puppy laying in the middle of U.S. 285.
A blue corn cookie crust and lavender topping elevate a classic dessert.
Even though the seven lawbreakers who destroyed the Plaza obelisk were charged with felonies and lesser crimes for smashing the monument, they won't face public scrutiny.
The root of many money issues is that when we suffer money trauma and live under severe financial stress, especially in childhood, it can create an anxious or avoidant relationship to money.
Sen. Bill Soules questions whether duly elected legislators responsible for supervising an official can have the results of an investigation on her job performance.
A mixture of Republicans and Democrats is pursuing the recall election of Couy Griffin.
The housing bubble of 2021 is purely price-driven and for purely market reasons.
It would be great to have a Boundaries 101 course in which we could all learn how to set boundaries with our children.
Una tarde Canutito entró en la cocina shaking his head. It looked como que estaba bien disgusted. Grampo Caralampio looked up de la mesa where he was reading el periód…
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was the first revolution against a European Empire in what is now the United States.
True patriotism, especially of the American variety, comes from questioning the history you were born into. This July Fourth, we should all keep this in mind as we que…
The term white supremacy has received a lot of play lately. White supremacists were prominent among the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6; the ch…
By the middle of the day, a handful of Lobo football players had made deals with companies of their own.
The mayor abetted a criminal element that shared his political base's distaste for the obelisk.
I was one of the prosecutors for the only two litigated U.S. military tribunals since Nuremberg. These were the trials of Salim Ahmed Hamdan and Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, w…
In New York, the company provided many benefits to customers and to the state as a whole.
Netflix is streaming a movie based on a true story about integrating a white school after an inferior Black school caught fire in Durham, N.C.…
For most Americans, natural gas is a clean and affordable fuel they use to cook, heat their water and provide warmth in the winter. Millions o…
As Catholics and people of faith, who are we if not our relationship with God? It’s a complex, personal and sacred truth unique to each of us.
Along with 11 other dedicated New Mexican advocacy groups, I am working on the biggest and most important energy deal for ratepayers and all c…
Dear Santa Fe City Council, residents and business owners: I am sad to write this, but after so many years of visiting in the summers (I’m a t…
My compliments and support for the recent decision of the Caballeros de Vargas to abstain from local politics.
There is no longer such a thing as normal, new or old, past or future. We can blame the pandemic, presidents, Congress, social media, anger, a…
What inspired you to work at NASA? How long does it take to travel to Mars?
Using gasoline to fuel our cars and trucks makes us vulnerable to price spikes, while wasting energy and money.
Receding splotches of orange were as lava, flowing down pink slopes of gray mountains. This rhapsodic vision, burning orange alternately brigh…
I’m not an expert on the economics of renewable energy. But as a Public Service Company of New Mexico rate payer, I’ve tried to understand exa…
I am new to Santa Fe but not new to New Mexico, and have been reading about the controversy over critical race theory. It seems to have stirre…
Economic relief packages, infrastructure bills and other legislative proposals continue to fan debate about blowing up the filibuster or makin…
Ninety miles south of the U.S., lies an island once regarded by the Spanish conquistadores as “la isla más hermosa que ojos humanos vieron” (t…
Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.
Commented