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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...

Mother’s Day and balancing time

There was a time when Mother’s Day was quieter. Not necessarily easier, not necessarily simpler, but quieter. It was a day built around phone calls home, crowded restaurant waits, handmade cards, flowers carried out of grocery stores by...

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Opinions & Columns

Amenability

In New Mexico, a youthful offender faces a crossroads, as determined by the judge in their case: are they amenable to treatment or services that will teach them a lesson about how they have been on the wrong path and correct it, or aren’t...

What are New Mexicans voting for?

Most voters are passive. The information they gather as to know who to vote for comes from aggressive political ads and news stories just prior to and during election season where candidates clamber for the limelight. Why? Name recognition. Most...

Model city proposal not so bad; but the qualifier is

I had originally intended to write a rebuttal column this week to one penned recently by New Mexico Senate Republicans criticizing city officials in Las Cruces and Albuquerque for not applying for the Trump Administration’s “model city”...

Sneaky health care costs about to go up again

When the cost of gas goes up, there are big signs along the roadway announcing the hike. The signs in the grocery store aren’t as big but increases in the cost of food are clearly marked for all to see. When the cost of health care goes up, as it...

More The View From Here

The tricky emotions of golfers

Emotional regulation is the latest term used to describe a person’s ability to manage and respond to an emotional experience. People use a variety of strategies, many of which are unconscious, in their attempt to cope with difficult situations...

Why is golf so hard anyway?

The National Golf Foundation just released some unsettling numbers about growing the game of golf. From 2020 through 2025 over 19 million Americans tried on-course golf for the first time. Yet only one in four of the folks who tried golf became...

Guest Columns

Copper Flat asks southern New Mexico to gamble with its water

More than 20 years ago, my wife and I were looking for a place to grow trees. We looked around the country and chose Las Animas Creek in Sierra County because of the water, beauty and landscape. We built a tree-growing operation there that, at...

Guns — who needs them?

Gun violence is not a single problem with a single cause. It is a pattern, a predictable convergence of behaviors, access points, and environmental conditions. And because the pattern is predictable, the consequences are predictable. That means...

Project Jupiter, a golden opportunity for New Mexico

I encourage my fellow New Mexicans to support the Project Jupiter data center being constructed in Doña Ana County. This project will generate substantial tax revenue to help fund the education of our children and help our communities. It will...

Conference returns to elevate the discourse national topics

For more than a decade, New Mexico State University was host to the one of the Southwest’s most prestigious and impactful public policy conversations each fall. The Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Conference grew out of the university’s strong...

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How many shoulda’s should it take?

Facts on Project Jupiter · proposed $165 billion data center & fuel cell project – Santa Teresa, NM · four AI hyperscale data center...

Las Cruces isn’t safe for families anymore

Las Cruces shouldn’t be like this. Last week, I was driving down Main Street by Albertson’s at lunch time and there was a guy stumbling down the sidewalk. I looked to see what was going on and made the mistake of making eye contact. He was...

Stand against Project Jupiter’s violence

For months, local organizers have shown up to Doña Ana County Board of County Commissioners’ meetings and engaged in public comment calling for transparency surrounding Project Jupiter’s hasty and secretive development, and for months our concerns...

August is National Make a Will Month

For many people, estate planning feels like something to put off until "someday." Many assume it's only for retirees, those with significant wealth, or people nearing the end of life. However, the truth is that creating a plan for your future is...

Additional Opinion

Letters to the Editor

- 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 …

- To the editor
  
  Response to family safety guest opinion I was interested to read the opinions expressed in “Las Cruces isn't safe for families …
- To the editor Aug. 7, 2026
  
  Need more notice The public meeting with Chief Story and our City Councilors on Wed. evening, July 29, was really a great idea. …

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