Opinion
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In the midst of the daily, almost hourly, hate, ignorance and vitriol being spewed by the current inhabitant of the Oval Office, I find it hard to not been drawn in: look, a new "shiny thing" over …
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By Jona Olsson, El Rito/Latir
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3/2/17
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It's been three weeks since I came back home from the rehab. Recovering from major surgery is not only a time of pain and general misery, but also a time for reflection.
It took me longer …
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By Krystyna Arthur, Taos
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3/2/17
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We would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Arcenio J. Trujillo for promoting and honoring the Central Catholic Falcons on the 50th anniversary of winning the state basketball championship. The halftime …
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By Tom McCarthy, Taos
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3/2/17
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Your editorial cartoon in the 2/17/17 edition of The Taos News implying that patients were going to be discharged inappropriately after a 96-hour stay was inflammatory and displays a poor …
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By Michael Kircher, Angel Fire
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3/2/17
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It’s distressing to see shallow reporting in The Taos News on institutions that are as critical to our well-being as Holy Cross Hospital.
The editorial cartoon that appeared a couple …
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By Bob Bresnahan, Kit Carson Co-op trustee
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3/2/17
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3/2/17
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Televised addresses to Congress and State of the Union speeches are often long on platitudes and short on specifics. It’s too bad, but we’ve come to expect that from …
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3/2/17
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‘Who’ll be my role model, now that my role model is gone, gone?” (”You Can Call Me Al” by Paul Simon, 1986)
Many pundits have offered theories about why Donald Trump …
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By Yale Jones
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2/23/17
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Congratulations to the Taos News for its new humor section Favor y Contra in the Feb. 9 edition. The opinions are so crazy that you just have to laugh at ideas published in this section; or as a …
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The great philosopher Yogi Berra once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” But it’s hard not to worry anyway. Of all the problems we face …
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By Richard McCracken
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2/23/17
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First, let’s stipulate: Our nation absorbed so many shocks that have come so rapidly in recent weeks that what’s seemed real a few days ago may have been upended by developments even …
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By Graham Sudbury
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2/23/17
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New Mexico is currently 50th in the nation in education and 77 percent of New Mexico fourth graders are not proficient in reading — with 79 percent of the eighth graders not proficient at …
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Dear friends, it has been a while since I wrote an uplifting column. A while since I wrote about the good we can do to each other, especially those we have never met and most likely will never see …
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By Ana R. Klenicki
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2/23/17
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I am emailing to testify that the censure of Councilor Judy Cantu contained at least one falsehood to my knowledge. I understand that the censure included wording that Cantu’s problems with her …
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Gregory Corning, Taos
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2/23/17
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It’s time, and more, for New Mexico to join many, many other nations and grow industrial hemp — which is not, not, not marijuana!
Hemp is one of the oldest crops in the world, and is …
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Joanne Forman, Ranchos de Taos
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2/23/17
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This letter is addressed to whomever stole the U.S. flag from my flag pole.
Yes, I was flying the flag upside down — for a good reason. I feel that the recent election of a xenophobic, …
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William A. Westbury, Taos
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2/23/17
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I respect Daniel Brown’s belief about Taos — we are all in this together. Like the Browns, my wife and I moved to Taos from New England — Stowe, Vermont, specifically, 18 years …
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By Dr. Ed Kollar, Taos
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2/23/17
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The idea that a worker can live on $7.50 an hour is not based in reality. It’s the reason those who work for $7.50 often have two or three jobs and also put a strain on government resources out …
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2/23/17
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You might not have known this, but New Mexico’s taxpayers have consistently been robbed of millions of dollars a year in oil and gas revenue by a wasteful system that allowed companies to vent …
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By Gabriel Romero
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2/16/17
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Three years ago, when my wife and I decided to move to Taos from New England, we chose to do so with eyes wide open. Although entranced by the gorgeous sunsets, friendly people and exquisite food, …
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By Daniel A. Brown, For The Taos News
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2/16/17
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I am waiting for the hateful to unclench the tight fists of their hearts. Waiting for us to stop yelling at each other. And to start listening.
These days both sides take less pleasure in winning …
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By Iver Arnegard, For The Taos News
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2/16/17
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I am grateful for the recent actions as it finally got the attention of the people to question the happenings at town hall. People need to ask themselves if the cancelling of cable and the Taos Live …
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Like many New Mexicans, Taoseños enjoy and appreciate public lands. We cut firewood, gather pinyon nuts, hunt, fish, hike, ski, mountain bike, raft, birdwatch, graze cattle and more. But now, …
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By John Miles, For The Taos News
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2/16/17
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Town Councilmember Cantu is doing the most. Very few citizens were there to witness it when she was censured recently by her colleagues who complain that she’s doing too much.
This attempt …
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Matthew Swaye, Two Peaks
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2/16/17
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