The Public Education Department (PED) recently unveiled a proposed redesign of New Mexico’s high school curriculum. That plan rejected the ideas of including personal finance and civics as high school graduation requirements, and it proposed to shift courses in government, economics, and New Mexico History from requirements to optional electives.

Dear Editor, National media let the genie out of the bottle on schools. If you’re a parent, check out your kids’ school to see this doesn’t happen, deadbolt locks are a cheap price to pay for keeping your kids safe.

I recently touched base on Facebook with a former youth baseball teammate named Dean Leonard, the star player and my then-hero and teammate on the triple-A Mets Little League team way back in 1973. I was raised in Vienna, Virginia, a picturesque and wonderful town just outside of Washington, D.C.

Google and Facebook have enormous economic and political power in society – especially over the news industry. Many ask if they have played a role in the misinformation that erodes our free press and plagues our democracy.

Dear Editor, When I hear people saying that those who are against gun restrictions don't care about the lives of children, I disagree. I think most gun owners who protest restrictions are as compassionate as the rest of us.

The Fourth of July went off without a hitch. The annual Independence Day Parade in Grants is easily one of the nicest in New Mexico, and the City of Grants’ annual firework show was one for the books – an incredible display of colors and booms.

Dear Nancy: I find myself feeling overwhelmed with anger and desperation because of my chronic pain. I was in a car accident that left me with constant aching in my lower back, and lately I’m just so exhausted because my pain is ruining my life.

Addressing Another Shooting Dear editor, Another sad shooting on one of the country’s best holidays, he posted many online rants about shooting people, and dying at the hands of the police. His family refusing help from a school and deciding to home school him, Illinois shooting suspect was ‘known to law enforcement’ | Watch (msn.com).

Ah, summertime! Good ole’ sum, sum, summertime! Vacations, evening cookouts, baseball games, the movies, cruising down Santa Fe - radio tunes cranking - on a hot, July evening. It’s a time for students – and teachers – to recharge.

Dear editor, Mr. Johnson Since your attempt at logic and “humor” directly addresses me, I thought I’d respond.