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The muddy parking lot on Saturday morning at High Noon soccer fields.

Some suggestions on youth soccer

I crossed the street alongside a grandfather who just wanted to watch his 6- or 7-year-old grandchild play soccer on a Saturday morning. The game was at the High Noon soccer facility near Mayfield High School and the Field of Dreams. We arrived...

Stepping outside the echo chamber

One of the most difficult things about running a community newspaper is accepting the stories we can’t cover. With a limited staff and a weekly publication schedule, we make choices every day between being a mile wide and an inch deep or taking...

Fending off confirmation bias

One of the most disturbing things about modern life is how easy it has become to surround ourselves with opinions that reinforce what we already believe. The technology we use has a tendency to lock us into a world in which we not only don't...

Learning how to lose with class

I used to have a podcast titled The Good in Sports. My premise was to find and tell stories about the positive impact athletics has on society. I’m not sure I’m as high on the availability of content for that podcast today. For weeks, the...

Straying from your lane

It might just be me, but politics and sports rarely mix well. Sports are the toy store of life. Government is supposed to deal with the real world, where decisions affect livelihoods, national security and, sometimes, lives themselves. Yet here...

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

They are documents that carry lofty expectations, loftier even than the lives of the men who wrote them. As we celebrate 250 years since the founding of the United States of America, how are we doing at living up to the spirit of these two...

Watch parties and other parties

For sports fans, it’s that time of year. This June, we can add the World Cup to the NBA and NHL finals, all in the middle of baseball season. When championship season arrives, the watch parties follow. Crowds in Carolina and Las Vegas packed...

more Speaking Kurtly

Opinions & Columns

On juggling responsibility

I have recently made the decision to change jobs. It was a decision not made lightly and with much grief over letting my coworkers down. I used to pride myself on loyalty, but that came at great personal cost in my last job, and I told myself I...

Strategizing engagement with constituents and residents

Let’s revisit the city’s Strategic Plan. Recall, the city recently called for feedback on its drafted Strategic Plan, the plan they will use to prioritize funding for the next five to 10 years to ensure resident needs are being met. The plan...

Entrenched incumbents benefit from being unpaid

Russia was still the USSR in 1991 when Pete Campos began his first term in the New Mexico Senate. The World Wide Web had just become available to everyone, and Nirvana created a new genre of music with the album “Nevermind.” Campos has held...

Death penalty in U.S.: better killing through chemistry

On Sept. 30, Corrections professionals in Tennessee tried to kill Christa Pike. They almost succeeded. Now, health care professionals in Tennessee are trying to save her life. She is on a ventilator in critical condition in a specialized critical...

More The View From Here

Strong work ethic essential in golf as in life

When it comes to work ethic on the PGA Tour Ben Hogan was a legend in his own time. Those who knew Hogan and wrote about him described his practice routine as highly organized and on the verge of obsessive. That dedication to perfection was...

Getting the most out of you when your best left on vacation

What do you do when you realize you don’t have your a-game for an important golf match? You know it’s your B game, and maybe your C game that will show up. We’ve all been there, feeling like you need to go back to square one and re-learn a golf...

Guest Columns

Get the information you need to vote on judges standing for retention

A 2024 survey by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that about 35 percent of adults report they or someone in their household have been part of a legal case in a local or state court. That means more than six out of every 10 adults voting in the...

From buildings to buses

At 2 a.m., laptops covered the table alongside research articles, financial spreadsheets, state statutes, and endless draft pages. After completing our full-time jobs, our founding team met night after night, hoping to build a school where...

I wanted to serve but I couldn’t afford to go without a paycheck

A few years ago, I wanted to run for office. I was thinking about it very seriously until I did the math. Serving in the New Mexico Legislature would mean missing one to two months of paid work every year for as long as I remained in office, as...

GO Bond 3 for higher ed offers a transformative step forward for NMSU and our state

New Mexico voters have many important decisions to make this fall, with key statewide races, funding questions, and constitutional amendments on the Nov. 3 ballot. One measure that we hope our citizens will support is general obligation bond...

additional columns

Reform legislative ethics laws to restore trust in government

A 2025 poll by Research & Polling, Inc. for the Albuquerque-based Garrity Group found that only 19% of New Mexico residents trust state government officials, a record low and down from 31% just five years earlier. (National trust in government...

From Rio Grande drought to data center growth, Southern New Mexico deserves practical solutions

For families and farmers across the Mesilla Valley and southern New Mexico, managing water and weathering extreme heat have always been part of daily life. But in recent years, the pressures on the region have intensified. Prolonged drought along...

Fall Into Community with your CFSNM

There’s something special about fall in Southern New Mexico. As the evenings grow cooler and the season brings new opportunities to gather, it’s a time to slow down, reconnect with friends and neighbors, and appreciate the people and places that...

New Mexico’s role in fixing Washington

New Mexicans disagree about plenty of things politically. But one frustration that crosses party lines and reaches from Albuquerque and Santa Fe to Las Cruces, Farmington, Roswell and our rural communities is that Washington is not working as well...

Additional Opinion

Letters to the Editor

- To the editor
  
  Paid legislature Beyond the races for various public offices, voters have an opportunity to address a number of ballot issues. One of …
- To the editor
  
  A tale of two homes As a Realtor in Las Cruces, I'm currently preparing marketing materials for a landmark LEED Platinum home built in …

- To the editor Sept. 18, 2026
  
  Return of Domenici Conference I was excited to see the Domenici Public Policy Conference was being resurrected after an eight-year hiatus. …
- To the editor
  
  More Project Jupiter questions After watching the recent County Commission meeting today, Sept. 8 (regarding Project Jupiter), I walked away …

More Letters to the Editor

On juggling responsibility

Strategizing engagement with constituents and residents

Entrenched incumbents benefit from being unpaid

Death penalty in U.S.: better killing through chemistry

Strong work ethic essential in golf as in life

Getting the most out of you when your best left on vacation

Guest Columns

Letters to the Editor

To the editor

To the editor

To the editor Sept. 18, 2026

To the editor