Op-Ed NMSU Grants Campus: Where Every Path Leads to Success

April is Community College Month, a time to recognize the powerful role these institutions play in shaping lives, strengthening the workforce, and expanding opportunity for all.

Get Your H.A.T.

The concept of work in the Bible is rich and multifaceted, transcending mere labor to include stewardship, dignity, and purpose.

State of Affairs

Cibola County knows what a boom feels like.We have lived through moments when the future seemed to arrive all at once. Mines opened. Families came. Businesses filled storefronts. Neighborhoods grew.

Get Your H.A.T.

Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell.

State of Affairs

There are moments when the world feels so large and so unstable that it becomes hard to know what you’re supposed to do with it.I think this is one of those moments.War in the Middle East, rising tension overseas, markets reacting, oil prices climbing, families of American service members waiting...

The Postscript

“Carrie!” my husband, Peter, called from the bathroom.We are still in Mexico, and Peter’s abscessed tooth had been extracted earlier that day. The extraction had been difficult. Peter was sore and tired, and he had not eaten since the night before.

OP-ED

If New Mexico legislators were paid a salary, what would you expect them to do that they have not been doing up till now?New Mexico is the only state legislature where legislators are not paid something like a salary, though they do receive per diem and mileage compensation.

State of Affairs

The world feels heavier than it did a month ago.The current conflict in the Middle East has struck at oil security. Right now, Americans don’t need a lecture to understand the consequences. We already feel it in the cost of living. We feel it at the pump.

The Postscript

I spent yesterday with more than 5,000 librarians.A few were library aides, and some were library trustees. But the thing they all had in common was libraries.I never thought much about how libraries work, probably because they work so well.

Op-Ed Why Your Vote Matters at Your Electric Cooperative

By design, electric cooperatives are different.They are not owned by distant shareholders or outside investors. They are owned by the people they serve—members like you. That means the direction of the cooperative is not set in a boardroom far away.