Let’s pretend I don’t know about the election next week. You’ve all decided without me, and many have already voted. So I’m going to continue last column’s insignificant comments on economics. Nothing about the election. I promise. Last time I talked about immigration and population. But there’s more to economic problems than that. Things have […]
The immigration debate is an unstoppable force in this election, but behind the scenes it runs up against two immovable objects — population trends and economic forces. How we vote won’t necessarily change the outcome. Have you recently had any difficulty finding eager, competent people to do a job? If you haven’t, lucky you. Many […]
You might ask (as many did at a hearing on Sept. 11), “What part of ‘no’ does the Air Force not understand?” They pointed out that a proposal to fly Alamogordo-based jets over the Gila had been shot down at a hearing in December 2019. A new proposal for Arizona-based jets seemed like more of […]
Do we have a right to sit on benches downtown? There’s some controversy about that issue, but it appears that the bench supporters are winning — for now, at least. For me, and apparently for some others, this came out of the blue. One day most of the metal benches downtown were gone. Town officials […]
Normally, I don’t worry much about school bonds. I just vote for them. Yes, education is expensive, but it’s cheaper than ignorance. Vote for the kids, even if it hurts a little. But the Silver Schools bond issue merits more consideration, even though the result may come out the same. This tax increase is greater […]
Silver City has had an unresolved controversy about the Grateful Living Cannabis Company on Bullard, but the slow simmer may soon come to a boil. Let me start by saying that many questions could be easily answered if I were a real journalist. I would simply go to the store, buy some product and see […]
We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).
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