Only in New Mexico

I rolled back into town about 3:30 from Pendairies, NM.  We played 45 holes of golf in less than 24 hours.  Ah retirement. But then I see ...

Local TV news spent a lot of time using their new Choppers to report on a fire in the Rio Grande Bosque in Albuquerque's north valley.  ...

The headline story in the Sunday Journal was about city employees who get paid while they are not working because of injury.  It was an okay...

I was saddened to see that a trestle over a deep ravine on the Cumbres and Toltec Rail Road burned yesterday.  I have taken that train often...

I am not even sure it is possible to govern in this country anymore.  The President of the United States should be working on one thing righ...

The oil and gas industry has a full page ad in the Journal today saying they are doing everything they can to help BP clean up its mess, and...

I feel sorry for Mayor Berry.  Here is the city of Albuquerque in the worst financial shape ever due to the Council and former Mayor Marty C...

There was a letter to the editor in the Journal today from someone who says they don't like GOP gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez ...

UPDATE:  CANCELLED UNTIL JUNE 30TH

Somedays I am reminded of how we kids back in the 50's just would 'hang out' on summer vacation days.  An anticipated event was ...

I sometimes think I am becoming heartless.  But, then I talk with folks who are wiser and more experienced than me and find they have reache...

As everyone knows I am a big supporter of President Obama.  I thought he could hit a home run last night with his Oval Office Speech.  It wa...

We are in a crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.  With that in mind it is important to look at the positions of the candidates for Governor on New ...

A Pox on the Arizona Legislature.  Now a bill has been introduced to deport legal American citizen children of Mexicans who entered the coun...

Why is it that some people defend keeping "a way of life" in place even when it has outlived its usefulness and might even be bad ...

Hermes the Cat and Ajax the Other Cat are eating machines.  They have pretty much tripled their size in the six weeks since we acquired them...

Someone once wrote, "Television news was once a vast wasteland,  now it is only half vast." Even my friend, the veteran and poli...

We all need to stay busy in retirement.  At least so we don't drive our still employed spouses to the straight-jacket store.  Bobbi is e...

Have you noticed how much time the Albuquerque Journal is dedicating to coverage of County government?  I am glad for it because I have alwa...

Arturo is doing fine.  The Surgeons decided he didn't need surgery on his hip after taking O.R. xrays.  They manipulated his hip back in...