Opinion

New Mexico has a responsibility to plug orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells. That’s not in dispute.

Abbey spent twenty-six years as executive director of the Legislative Finance Committee, one of the few legislative bodies in the country to propose a budget independent of the governor’s budget.

This achievement is the result of years of hard work, investment, and innovation by the men and women of New Mexico’s oil and gas industry to meet and exceed environmental standards and regulations.

Ruidoso and Las Vegas are two very different communities, but when it comes to environmental disasters, they’re topping the charts these days.

The response from our community has been nothing short of inspiring.

New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham and the entire Congressional delegation also unsurprisingly opposed the BBB.

On one level this is a freedom of speech issue, but not all freedoms are necessarily worth exercising.

The Village of Ruidoso is still rebuilding from last year’s fires and floods, reported Source New Mexico.

The Wall Street Journal cites a poll by Quinnipiac University and Fox News that shows opposition to the new law outweighs support by 20 percent.

Alligator Alcatraz has caused President Donald Trump, DeSantis, and others within the MAGA establishment to become giddy in recent days.

Earlier this year, an investigative journalist at Searchlight New Mexico unearthed unethical and misleading behavior by NMSOP and revealed deep ties between NMSOP and the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association, whose members feel threatened by the proposed reforms.

Trip Jennings A friend who wrote searing, sometimes grisly Facebook posts as he dug out from Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic destruction around Asheville, N.C. last autumn took to the social media platform this weekend.