At first glance viewers might have thought it was a slow news day when Albuquerque's NBC affiliate led its 10 p.m. newscast with a story about rapper Afroman.
Although it’s some months from Thanksgiving, the time when we all remember the homeless, Joy Junction, New Mexico’s largest emergency homeless shelter, will still take in individuals and entire families without roofs over their heads tonight.
While April 19, 1995 started off as an ordinary day, it didn’t stay that way for very long. Just after 9 a.m., the nation was rocked to the core of its collective consciousness by a tragedy of unspeakable proportions.
Nobody can deny that we live in a troubled world. Evidence of that surrounds us on a daily basis: school shootings, a seriously troubled stock market, rampant divorce, a disturbing lack of morality even among a number of religious leaders and the list goes on.
The highly controversial bikini-clad version of the Virgin Mary on display at a state museum has been described by its artist — a practicing Catholic — as an expression of her personal faith.
Under a proposed new federal medical "privacy" rule, government control over our medical records could be a lot closer than we think, and we only have until March 30 to offer our comments to the government.
New Mexico was in the national spotlight Monday when — I’m embarrassed to say — Republican Gov. Gary Johnson took to the national airwaves yet again on ABC’s “Nightline” in his seemingly endless criticism of our country’s war on drugs.
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