It’s crossed your mind. They’re making such a mess of things. You could do better. Well, the time has come. Make up your mind and run for town council. Municipal elections happen in the off-years from state, county and national elections. Our small towns have delegated elections to the Grant County clerk. Next Tuesday, Aug. […] Read More
Three things are inevitable: death, taxes and monsoons. Or at least they used to be. Now I’m not so sure about the second two. On the death front, I’ve known for a while that I could die at any moment. This first came home to me when our family got stuck in Hurricane Hilda while […] Read More
There are many ways to look at the recent killing of youth pastor Stephen Timmons on the Dragonfly Trail. Fortunately, this is so abnormal that it probably won’t happen again. But was it so abnormal that it shouldn’t have happened in the first place? I take this personally because I occasionally ride my mountain bike […] Read More
A writer friend recently asked if my column had made anyone angry lately. That’s not quite how he put it, but that was the gist — as if my worth as a columnist could be rated by how controversial I was.Well, I had to admit I had made only one person really angry lately, but […] Read More
Has the climate apocalypse started? Or is it just smoke from a nearby forest fire?Last week, on the way to my regular tennis game, I looked down College Avenue from the university. It was so smoky that I thought something downtown must be on fire – perhaps my office building. I drove down, but it […] Read More
The world is slowly becoming more electric, although the transition may be completed over the dead bodies of those who love internal combustion engines. I’m not one of them. I like electric cars and electric bikes, and I want solar panels on every roof. Unfortunately, our electrical infrastructure isn’t ready for the change, which explains […] Read More
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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