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The student body president favors a merger, while staff at the Counseling Center do not. “A medical operation and a counseling operation are fundamentally different things,” said Corey Vas, the Counseling Center’s associate director. Continue Reading
It is crucial that the governor calls for a special session and lawmakers come together to ensure that our health-care system works for us as New Mexicans. Continue Reading
I decided to raise my voice against Donald Trump’s proposed policies because I do not want my children to inherit a nation that was transformed into a hate land. Continue Reading
About half of the people commented with the usual vitriol towards law enforcement, and said that her arrest typified a law enforcement predisposition to arrest people of color. The other half concluded that Ms. King was resisting arrest and got what she deserved. Continue Reading
When Charles Whitman went to the top of the University of Texas Tower and started shooting on Aug. 1, 1966, dozens of people grabbed their rifles and tried to stop him. But only Allen Crum made it to the top of the tower with police that day. Continue Reading
Kurt Wurm believed the decision to cut his job as a professor in New Mexico State University’s Surveying Engineering program had already been made — until this reporter told him otherwise last week. Continue Reading
We must demand that policymakers give us a seat at the table so we’re there to remind them who gave them their seats. Continue Reading
David Cruz joined the U.S. Border Patrol because he wanted to be “part of the best.” But family pressures, disillusionment, love and greed drove him to begin taking bribes to help immigrants enter the country illegally. Continue Reading
The assessment was a critical portrait of a public utility entrusted with delivering safe drinking water to an estimated 21,000 people and performing competent wastewater treatment and disposal services that impact the Rio Grande, which is shared by the U.S. and Mexico. Continue Reading
Here’s an inside look at the influence-peddling in Philadelphia. Check back on this post for updates throughout the week. Continue Reading
On the national stage, Governor Susana Martinez blew it again. Continue Reading
The state’s general fund is likely to close out the 2016 fiscal year, which ended June 30, in the red. In fiscal year 2017 the state is on track to exhaust reserves and maybe still fall short of the revenues needed for the current operating budget. The outlook for the 2018 fiscal year is also “gloomy.” Continue Reading
The political right, left, and center are increasingly coalescing around the concern, the fear, that the core values we all cherish are being subsumed by what President Eisenhower might have called the “military, contractor, security complex.” Continue Reading
Ted Cruz has already indicated his interest in another run for president in 2020, and on Wednesday, he put down his wager. Continue Reading
As it became apparent Cruz would not endorse Trump, the crowd inside the Quicken Loans Arena reacted with increasing anger, and Cruz left the stage to thundering boos. Continue Reading