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Public safety will be on the agenda in the upcoming 60-day session, but Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s attempts to arm-twist lawmakers on the issue last year won’t serve her well as she …
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Walt Rubel For the Bulletin
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11/18/24
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For the last three months, I have had the honor to live and work in Las Cruces as interim CEO of Memorial Medical Center. Thank you for the warm welcome, as this city has quickly become home to me. I …
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Dennis Knox
Guest columnist
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11/12/24
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On February 11 of this year, Las Cruces, all of us, lost the first Las Cruces Police Department officer in the line of duty. Officer Jonah Hernandez, a husband and father to two young boys, gave his …
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Shawna Pfeiffer For the Bulletin
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11/6/24
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I’m glad the election is over. I was getting a little tired of the political ad rubbing our community’s worst day in our face every time I turned on a TV.
“One day in one city, …
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Walt Rubel For the Bulletin
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11/6/24
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Our entire state legislature is on the ballot right now. This is a good time to look deeper to see how our Las Cruces area representatives and senators have voted in the Legislature.
Our …
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Sarah SmithGuest columnist
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10/29/24
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Election Day is just a week away, and many voters are already casting their ballots. On the backs of those ballots is an opportunity to invest nearly $230 million in New Mexico’s public higher …
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Mónica TorresGuest columnist
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10/28/24
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I voted on Saturday. With two small children in tow, a bit late in the early voting game, in a busy part of town and on a Saturday, the time it took would fit within a sitcom episode. It was …
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Shawna Pfeiffer For the Bulletin
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10/28/24
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The Air and Space Expo at the Las Cruces International Airport was one of the most entertaining shows I’ve seen in years.
I hadn’t been to an air show since I was a kid, and was …
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Walt Rubel For the Bulletin
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10/28/24
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It’s hard to think of anything locally that has been more needed and less productive since its founding than Doña Ana County’s Crisis Triage Center.
In 2012, then-County …
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Walt Rubel For the Bulletin
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10/21/24
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On October 10, the legislative Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee visited Las Cruces for a brief discussion with community leaders regarding the increase in crime, drug abuse and mental health …
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Shawna Pfeiffer For the Bulletin
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10/21/24
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In last week’s column I wrote that I was going to vote early and then spend the rest of the election season as an interested spectator. It turns out, that wasn’t true.
I did vote …
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Walt Rubel For the Bulletin
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10/18/24
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I think I was about eight years old when someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I told them that I wanted to be the first woman president. I chuckle to myself as I write this, as …
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Shawna Pfeiffer For the Bulletin
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10/18/24
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On Las Cruces’ voting ballot right now, the city council is asking us to increase the gross receipts tax. Our GRT is already significantly higher than Albuquerque's. The proposed increase would …
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Sarah Smith
Guest columnist
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10/18/24
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Since being elected to the Las Cruces City Council, I have prioritized poverty reduction and improved quality of life. By championing projects and policies that uplift people most directly impacted, …
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Johana Bencomo
Guest columnist
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10/18/24
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As a serious golfer, how you respond to adversity goes a long way to define how you play the game. Among the many stats amassed on the PGA Tour, there is one that stands out as unique: “Bounce …
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Charlie Blanchard For the Bulletin
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10/10/24
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Of all the reforms passed during the administration of former Gov. Bill Richardson, and it was a busy eight years, perhaps none has had the same lasting positive impact as the election reform bill of …
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Walt Rubel For the Bulletin
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10/10/24
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Every resident has a need to access health care, regardless of income, regardless of color, being brown, black, white, regardless of insurance, etc.
I am reflecting on the past few years of …
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Yolanda R. Diaz
Guest columnist
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10/10/24
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QUESTION: Please explain to me what a “ press” is in a game of golf. I play with a few guys for a little bit of cash, but it always ends up to be for more than we started out …
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Charlie Blanchard For the Bulletin
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10/7/24
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Is there a statute of limitations on horribly offensive racist and homophobic comments posted online?
Every situation is unique. If you are running to be the governor of North Carolina and …
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Walt Rubel For the Bulletin
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9/30/24
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Bees are an extremely valuable part of our ecosystem. Our crops rely on them for pollination such that, if they disappeared, it would plunge our agriculture system into irreversible chaos and …
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Shawna Pfeiffer For the Bulletin
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9/30/24
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