Author Archives: merilee

Across New Mexico, dedicated individuals are working for causes you may never have heard of, but which just might benefit you or someone you care about. Many of them work for nonprofit organizations that hope to present proposals to the … Continue reading →

If you are an old person with money, and either with a quarrelsome family or no family at all, you are a little better off in New Mexico this year than you were last year. You can still have your … Continue reading →

Education and oil. In New Mexico, the two are inextricably intertwined. New Mexico must fix its education system to advance our people’s quality of life. Oil is what will pay for it. Oil and education – and how one depends … Continue reading →

Part of the planning for the 2020 US census is identifying geographic locations that are hard to count. On anational map that identifies those areas by color, New Mexico is lit up like a Christmas tree. The map was shown … Continue reading →

The British initiative known as Brexit is my candidate for the worst referendum in the history of the world. In Brexit, citizens of the United Kingdom voted in 2017 to withdraw from the European Union by simply voting  “leave” or … Continue reading →

The girl looked out from my computer screen with big round eyes and a sad face. She was maybe 12 years old, an ordinary looking white girl with long straight hair.  Behind her was a featureless background should. Text below … Continue reading →

Marijuana for sale in state run stores? In New Mexico? Are you kidding? To at least a few legislators, the idea is completely serious. Sen. Mark Moores, R – Albuquerque, is one. In 2019 he was a sponsor of Senate … Continue reading →

Under railroad tracks throughout New Mexico lies buried treasure. The treasure is black fiber. Black fiber, also called dark fiber, is fiber optic cable that nobody is using, cable that someone had the good sense to put into the ground … Continue reading →