Santa Fe The electoral map for the midterm elections this November based on the 2020 census is still unsettled and contentious. The New York Times recently weighted in that despite all of the sound and fury, the national map was still about what and what for each major party with no real difference …
Southeast New Mexico is Wonderful and Rough Country
Roswell Driving around Eddy County in southeastern New Mexico, I was looking for something we could use as a tower to mount an antenna for KEDR-FM around Loving, less than a dozen miles south of Carlsbad. My little rental car, some kind of hybrid thing from Ford, but 4WD and fine for my purposes, …
Sanctions and Crony Capitalism
Carlsbad There’s a lot of back and forth in the news about whether the sanctions being employed fiercely by the western world as a weapon to pressure Russia over its invasion of Ukraine will work. The theory would be that sanctions on close associates of Russian leader Putin among the rich oligarchs, military, and …


