Michael Smith

One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) was its insistence that roughly 70 percent of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color.

Gov. Lujan Grisham recently went on the TV show Face the Nation to decry potential cuts to Medicaid.

The New Mexico Film & Media Conference 2025 now returns annually. This conference will bring filmmakers, crew, businesses, studios and industry leaders together for the first time since pandemic recovery and industry strikes.

As a physician and CEO of Artesia General Hospital, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing the strength, resilience, and compassion of this community every day. I’ve also seen how access to quality healthcare—close to home—can change lives.

Artesia High School celebrated its Class of 2025 graduates in a ceremony held Thursday, March 22 at the Bulldog Bowl.

During recent debates over the president’s big beautiful budget bill, I wanted to know how the safety net would work.

As May ends and June begins, the kids are out of school, the weather is warming up, the days are getting longer – and fishing conditions are ideal across New Mexico.

The change was requested after members of Hadley’s family said they were intimidated by the Otero County Sheriff’s Office during a preliminary hearing for Jacob Diaz-Austin, the deputy accused of murdering Hadley in June 2024.

Theologically it goes back to the Garden of Eden, but in modern times it begins at certain universities and bigoted social media sites.

And so, when we read the story of the feeding of the five thousand in Matthew 14, we tend to focus our attention on the question, “Did it really happen?” There have been a number of attempts to “explain” the miracle.

During my time in the wedding business, June in our inviting mountain town was already a pretty full month with the racetrack opening, our Texas friends arriving, spring winds were finally dying down, and it’s warm enough that vegetation is greening up.

Here’s how the federal government honored the fifth anniversary of the tortured death of George Floyd: It stomped on his memory by gutting the very programs that could help police departments avoid such brutal and racially polarizing deaths.