From the Editorial Board: City officials must do a much better job than the county giving taxpayers a regular, transparent accounting of how well, or not, the Route 66 Visitor Center is doing.
From the Editorial Board: As we celebrate the United States during the 2024 Paris Olympics, we as New Mexicans celebrate the athletes our state has fostered and supported.
From the Editorial Board: The City Council can help eliminate the future waste of taxpayer funds by voting Monday in favor of a bipartisan proposal that could lead to the elimination of runoff elections.
From the Editorial Board: Investigations independent of MDC should be conducted to ensure the safety of all inmates and staff, adequate staffing levels, and that the jail's revolving door is jammed shut.
From the Editorial Board: If Joe Biden resigns, he will have truly done something patriotic and selfless.
From the Editorial Board: You’ll hear a lot of spin in the coming months about all the reasons lawmakers couldn’t pass any bills on public safety. Don’t you believe it.
From the Editorial Board: We must stay calm and unite around the American experiment.
From the Editorial Board: The governor has asked for our support and now we’re giving it. We’d like to see Republicans and moderate Democrats give her support as well and seize the opportunity to pass some sorely needed center-right crime leg…
From the Editorial Board: A fly-by-night low-rent Wild West show that disregards industry safety protocols to the point that someone is killed is a movie that can be made elsewhere.
From the Editorial Board: The governor and legislators will be convening July 18 for a special session on crime and public safety. The governor should broaden the call of the session to include debate about compensating Ruidoso fire victims.
From the Editorial Board: Voter ratification of Proposal P-24-1 would save the city a lot of wasteful spending and greatly simplify local elections. No offense to any City Council or mayoral candidate, but their service isn't worth a $750,000…
OPINION: Thousands of New Hampshire residents got a robocall just before the state’s primary in January telling them not to vote.
From the Editorial Board: Unless they want to pay for it twice: once to build it and once to raze it, the Village of Los Ranchos has no viable option at this point other than allowing the completion of the high-density Palindrome project.
From the Editorial Board: Journal announces it endorsements for local contested races in Tuesday's primaries.
From the Editorial Board: Given his 33 years of courtroom experience and unmatched presence in New Mexico's criminal courtrooms, Sam Bregman is the right person for the DA's job at the right time.
From the Editorial Board: This single case could have massive ramifications on Bernalillo County's catch-and-release criminal justice system. The more the public knows, the more likely something will de done about the existing deficiencies in…
From the Editorial Board: New Mexico kept its three representatives in the U.S. House after the 2020 census, although the warning signs of losing representation on Capitol Hill are on the wall.
OPINION: UNM officials played it smart Monday night and early Tuesday morning, letting the protesters tucker out and chant themselves to sleep in tents set up indoors, just like children do.
From the Editorial Board: The fencing of school properties is unfortunate and sad. Most people who run the track at night or play tennis on school courts on the weekends do so with little to no impact on school property. But we also can't all…
From the Editorial Board: It's encouraging law enforcement leaders are on the same page. If state lawmakers can also unite around serious public safety bills rather than political measures such as banning guns at polling sites, there may be c…
From the Editorial Board: Who knows, it could become a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case one day — “The pissed-off fire victims of the State of New Mexico vs. FEMA.”
From the Editorial Board: Police Chief Medina doesn't deserve to be drummed out of office the way former Chief Geier was.
From the Editorial Board: The governor can rectify the Netherwood playground funding fiasco by busting out one of her emergency executive orders and restoring the $200,000 of funding.
From the Editorial Board: If we don't get realistic about our energy needs, the environmental crowd will set us back a hundred years to cooking with wood-burning stoves and washing our clothes in the Rio Grande
From the Editorial Board: If Garcia Richard can't perform the duties of her office under the current royalty rates, she should resign in protest and let someone else represent the Land Office's beneficiaries.
From the Editorial Board: The governor contends New Mexico is leading the nation in many business-related sectors, like job growth, wage growth, manufacturing growth and overall economic growth. Yeah, if you start from No. 50, your climb can …
From the Journal Editorial Board: Having an LNG storage facility near Albuquerque would stabilize natural gas costs and give New Mexico Gas Co. direct access to fuel when it's most needed.
Here are last week's stances of the Albuquerque Journal Editorial Board. Editorials are available at ABQJournal.com.
From the Editorial Board: Police incidents involving Sheriff Allen and Police Chief Medina encapsulate what is so wrong with Albuquerque: rampant shoplifting, unstable and drug-addicted homeless people wandering the streets, and random gunfire.
From the Editorial Board: Yes, providing proper staff for all 112 state lawmakers may be expensive. But the state has the money and no rewriting of the state Constitution is necessary, unlike providing lawmakers salaries.
From the Editorial Board: New Mexico lawmakers — in their feckless, acquiescent and playful state — don't deserve large six-figure salaries. They're simply not worth it, especially times 112.
From the Journal Editorial Board: If Teresa Casados can't demonstrate an ability to protect the state's most vulnerable children, and soon, lawmakers should demand she step aside as the head of CYFD.
From the Editorial Board: The portion of the city's 905 police officers who are not corrupt and who serve the public faithfully shouldn't also be tainted by DWI scandal.
From the Editorial Board: We must remain cognizant of the importance of oil to the state's economy and national security while we balance environmental concerns.
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