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Posting commandments in classrooms is a performative act

Louisiana passed a law last week requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom in an act of performative religiosity. It is “performative” in …
From The Editor
Algernon D'Ammassa
On May 15, New Mexico State Police and campus officers at the University of New Mexico tore down an encampment that had been established by protesters calling for a cease-fire in Israel’s …
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For the past five decades or longer, the state Legislature has been planning for what we will do when the oil runs out. We’ve set up permanent funds to ensure we’ll be able to keep our …
Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico is a primary support organization for the Success Partnership, which shares a common commitment to uplifting families in the region. One such …
Algernon D'Ammassa
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a U.S. courtroom to exercise his part of a plea deal, copping to a felony violation under the Espionage Act.
Several years ago, when I was covering state government from Santa Fe, I attended the annual briefing given to reporters prior to the upcoming wildfire season. After going over the current …
We’re getting close to election season, which for me means again preparing to see and hear millions of dollars in advertising from liberal special interest groups smearing me and misleading New …
As I write this column on this early June day, I notice that the daytime high temperatures here in Las Cruces are going to be over or hovering around 100 degrees for the next two weeks. Playing golf …
Algernon D'Ammassa
The clearest detail I remember about your car was the smoke coming off your tires, before we nearly collided on Amador Avenue Sunday night. You were stopped at a red light and decided to peel out, …
Expectations were sky high in 2005 when British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson inked a 20-year lease on a new spaceport that had yet to be built in southern New Mexico.

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Opinion Editorial
Monica

Tiny Gestures

It seemed like a tiny gesture, my wife, Sherry’s insistence on taking these Walmart 4 X 6-inch photos of women patients at the mental asylum, Vision in Action in Juárez and putting them …
Policewomen near Zocalo.

Celebration in Mexico?

"Todos son corruptos, todos son malos,” says Juan Carlos, the cab driver who is taking us from the Mexico City airport to our hotel near the Zócalo or central plaza. This was the first …

Antisemitism bill stigmatizes legitimate speech

A bill that passed the House of Representatives last week overreaches by branding legitimate speech and debate about Israel as antisemitic.
Recently Merriam-Webster declared that English sentences may end with prepositions – a bit redundant since, there was never an actual rule against ending sentences with prepositions but, much …
The Open Meetings Act is an easy law to break, which means promoting its importance and calling out violations is a responsibility of citizens, journalists, organizations like the New Mexico …
Algernon D'Ammassa
If Benjamin Franklin was right when he said virtue and a trade are a child’s best portion, succeeding generations of Americans have neglected at least part of that birthright. Mass …

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Letters to the Editor

County fails to act on fireworks

Apparently common sense doesn't make sense anymore where the Doña Ana County commissioners are concerned. In the middle of an extended, severe drought, the commissioners voted 3-2 …

On solitary confinement

Dear editor, Most people have never seen the inside of a jail cell.  I’ve worked as a psychiatric nurse in a prison ward “for the criminally insane” to large county jails …

Endorsing Gabriel Duran

Dear editor, My name is Ruben Smith, former state Representative of District 35 for 10 years, followed by becoming the first elected mayor of Las Cruces (in 1991) and serving 12 years. I’m …

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