Opinion

Letter to the editor addresses traffic safety concerns

I have concluded the intersection located at 16th/Bowman and Main Street is one of the most unsafe intersections in Artesia. Since the speed limit on Main Street west of 13th Street is 35-40 mph, potential accidents could be extremely significant. 

Opinion: Republicans are failing to communicate to Americans

Why is this not getting through? Part of it has to do with the failure to acknowledge these facts by the media, which never hesitate to blame Republicans when prices go up and the government closes.

Letter to the editor: Thank you, Artesia for supporting hospital mill levy

This success was truly a community effort.

Does the Democrats’ chaos strategy work against Donald Trump?

Every day of Trump’s first year, there were either campus eruptions, Tesla firebombings, street violence against ICE, or crazy district judges’ injunctions.

Steve Pearce can bring his best self to BLM appointment

Pearce steps back into the spotlight just as the Trump administration has begun to repeal the BLM’s Public Lands Rule and Navajo activists protested the BLM’s possible revocation of the 10-mile buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

Letter to the editor: Trump is not a king

If the irony weren’t so glaring and occlusive, perhaps the “No Kings” protestors would realize that gathering publicly to shout into the void while donning Halloween costumes is the height of asininity.

Letter to the editor: Socialist/Communist ideal in full view

In both stigma names attached to the far left democratic party leaders; followers believe the government should give you a home, a job, and food to eat.

Importing beef from Argentina doesn’t put America first

Ranchers can finally take a deep breath and think about paying down long-term loans and rebuilding their herds because they finally caught a break on beef prices.

Time for the Right Wing to clean house

Conservatives - true conservatives, as in the Ronald Reagan brand - have a problem. The movement has been invaded by the “alt-right” (or alternative right), a brand that is not conservative, but rather slogs through the mud of antisemitism and racism, staining all who support or refuse to denounce it.

Who are the real kings?

Trump, in 2020, did not sic his Department of Justice on his rival, Biden.

Universal child care needs legislators’ close scrutiny

New Mexico has nowhere near the capacity to add the predicted 12,000 babies and toddlers to a program that now serves 27,000 kids.

A bad bet

Billups was charged in a scheme involving rigged poker games, and Rozier was charged for allegedly providing insider information to an illegal sports betting ring.

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