Saturday, July 27, 2024
Clear, 78°Wind: mph,
Welcome to our new web site!
To give our readers a chance to experience all that our new website has to offer, we have made all content freely avaiable, through October 1, 2018.
During this time, print and digital subscribers will not need to log in to view our stories or e-editions.
|
Let’s start with this: The city budget will never be large enough to address all of its needs. And so, it’s not surprising that public support for a proposed increase in the gross …
more
Walt Rubel Las Cruces Bulletin
|
6/6/24
|
|
Just when we thought things could not get any worse. Forbes just named New Mexico the number one most dangerous state in the United States. This is the direct result of soft-on-crime policies and …
more
Kimberly Skaggs
Guest columnist
|
6/6/24
|
|
Challenger Heather Berghmans trounced Albuquerque Democratic Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto in Tuesday’s District 15 primary. Berghmans won 80% of the vote against a senator who less than two years ago …
more
Marjorie Childress
New Mexico In Depth
|
6/6/24
|
|
|
The U.S. Supreme Court has just stripped away the final protections against gerrymandering.
With a series of rulings in the 1960s, the court established that the 14th Amendment required …
more
Walt Rubel Las Cruces Bulletin
|
5/30/24
|
|
As I wade into the high-risk group for grumpy old man syndrome, I aspire at least to be studious about it, for my own peace and to be less insufferable. The gates to seniordom open to me and what I …
more
Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin
|
5/30/24
|
|
It’s hard to believe that it has been a decade since we celebrated President Obama’s
historic designation of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument.
I first got to …
more
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich
Guest columnist
|
5/30/24
|
|
It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, it was raining in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, May 17, when traffic became snarled heading near the entrance to Valhalla Golf Club on the outskirts of …
more
Charlie Blanchard Las Cruces Bulletin
|
5/30/24
|
|
April marked three years since cannabis was legalized in New Mexico. We have waited over 50 years to see the sacred medicinal herb be legalized and made available without fear of legal repercussions.
…
more
Hilda Luz Chavez
|
5/23/24
|
|
|
The problem with presidential debates is they don’t have a scoreboard.
We treat them as if they were a football game, with clear winners and losers. President Joe Biden sent out a taunting …
more
Walt Rubel Las Cruces Bulletin
|
5/23/24
|
|
|
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 …
more
Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin
|
5/23/24
|
|
|
Every time I drive past the construction project on the corner of Farney and El Paseo, just down from my house, I feel a little bit better about our city’s future.
When completed, the …
more
Walt Rubel Las Cruces Bulletin
|
5/16/24
|
|
Recreational-use cannabis was legalized in New Mexico two years ago. Since then, New Mexicans have been enjoying safe and clean cannabis products from legitimate retailers across the state.
…
more
Matt Chadwick
|
5/15/24
|
|
A state legislator's resignation underscores a case for a professional legislature.
more
Walt Rubel Las Cruces Bulletin
|
5/10/24
|
|
|
A bill that passed the House of Representatives last week overreaches by branding legitimate speech and debate about Israel as antisemitic.
more
Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin
|
5/10/24
|
|
An open letter to Las Cruces Mayor Eric Enriquez and the city:
It is with dismay and frustration that many of us have been made aware of the pending demolition of three …
more
5/7/24
|
|
|
When President Joe Biden signed the proclamation marking the first Thursday of May as our national day of prayer, know that it was not for tradition and had nothing to do with his own Catholic faith: …
more
Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin
|
5/2/24
|
|
April in our desert means temperatures are warming and flowers are blooming, but the winds continue. More importantly, Masters week has finally arrived for the 88 th time. (The Masters was first …
more
Charlie Blanchard Las Cruces Bulletin
|
4/29/24
|
|
|
Although the Federal Trade Commission voted to ban non-compete agreements nationwide this week, the argument is far from over.
The commissioners voted 3-2 Tuesday to strike down most …
more
Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin
|
4/26/24
|
|
|
While mental illness isn’t a crime, it’s also not a permission slip to excuse crimes.
Yet that’s what happens in New Mexico once a defendant has been found by the court to be …
more
Walt Rubel Las Cruces Bulletin
|
4/25/24
|
|
|
Imagine being hired by a city to serve as a business liaison, someone charged with providing information to business owners about regulations, laws, programs and services available to them, city …
more
Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin
|
4/24/24
|