I know real people who have installed solar panels on their roofs, but I’m too lazy to research the details — which change daily, anyway. It’s easier and more flexible to imagine a typical example. So I’ve made up a person who has just spent a great deal of money to go all-out solar. We’ll […]
The New Mexico Legislature has failing grades on a report card of issues that I wrote about, or that I should have written about. I’ll start and end with the little good news I could find. The Legislature finally approved an amendment to reform vetoes. I first wrote about this for an online magazine in […]
I support President Donald Trump’s desire to make Canada our 51st state, but not for his reasons. Trump wants the United States to take over Canada. I want Canada to take over the United States. Let’s compare Canada to our current largest state, California. Canada’s estimated 2024 population was 41.5 million. California’s was 39.4 million. […]
Talking about police is always hard. That’s why the council discussion of a Silver City police oversight board has been going on for many months, and it may go on for more. The citizens advisory and review board was proposed several years ago by a local group, Silver City Citizens for Safety and Community. Who […]
I live in a constant state of political disappointment. That’s because I generally support fundamental (not revolutionary) change. I want my change to be legal and by the book, but not delayed forever. In other words, I like constitutional amendments. But the amendments I want aren’t even proposed at the national or local levels, and […]
Western New Mexico University’s ex-President Joseph Shepard has certainly left his mark. Things will be different as the university moves on without him. Many people I know think Shepard should go to prison. Others seem to have no problem with him, such as our state representative and senator and my fellow columnist, Tim Matthes. But […]
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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