A few weeks ago, a seemingly endless series of problems involving the Albuquerque Police Department's Evidence Room threatened to make the Albuquerque mayor's [...]

The reviews on the past 60-day session of the New Mexico Legislature are in, and they tend to be fairly favorable. Well, maybe [...]

During any given election you can count on Republican candidates to campaign against government spending, bureaucratic waste and increased taxes. Consider some direct [...]

The Albuquerque Journal took aim at the Planned Growth Strategy (or PGS) recently in a three-part series that explored the explosion of growth [...]

Of course some will disagree—Bush was re-elected, the war in Iraq continues to simmer, federal spending actually makes inebriated sailors look tight-fisted and [...]

Earlier this year, warring factions in the Republican Party of New Mexico made headlines as back and forth battling led to the defeat [...]

There's a minor bit of housekeeping to get out of the way before moving forward with this week's column. The following sentence appeared [...]

Fall is simply the best time of year here in Payne's World. Complimenting the brisk nip in the air and autumnal color of [...]

De mortuis nil nisi bene, the Romans said long ago. Speak nothing but good of the dead. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's [...]

Like many of our fellow countrymen, we're glad the election season is over. Things got so nasty and vile in the final days [...]