Opinion
No more Americans should die for Karzai
One person was giddy with excitement upon hearing President Obama’s announcement that all of America’s combat troops would depart from Afghanistan by 2014: Hamid Karzai...
Obama learns to love fracking
President Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University Tuesday, June 25, in which he outlined his vision for saving the country, world and civilization as we know it from the horrors of global warming...
The West badly needs a restoration economy
Farmington, a city of 45,000 in the northwestern corner of New Mexico, has run on a fossil fuel economy for a century. It is...
Letters: 10/25/18
Vote for Weiser
Phil Weiser is pro-choice.
George Brauchler is not pro-choice.
They are both running for Colorado Attorney General, a role that some have described as...
It’s the health care, stupid
The United States currently has the highest per-capita health care expenditures in the world, yet we rank last among 11 developed countries for health...
Fighting solves everything?
There is a rising wave of far right ultra-nationalist movements around the world. We’ve found that America is just as vulnerable as any other...
When a skunk goes after your garden
Skunks love autumn as our backyard gardens fill up with ripe vegetables. But in my northern New Mexico corn patch, that meant a determined...
Roger Sherman and the 210,328 complications
Roger Sherman says that legalizing marijuana is not a simple question...
Guess who’s pushing for prison reform?
Too many people are behind bars that don’t belong there,” declared a group demanding major reforms to America’s throw-’em-all-in-jail, mass imprisonment policies...
