New Mexico Mercury

Senate committee pushes vote on labor bills to Tuesday

Gun shop sees slight run on potentially banned ammunition

Hats and Hope - Girls starts knitting circle to benefit the homeless in ABQ

Provincial Matters, 3-9-2015

V.B. Price's weekly collection of observations and appreciations.

International Women’s Day 2015

Those who know me know that March 8th, International Women’s Day is, of all the year’s holidays, the one that most deeply claims my attention and my heart. This began in the 1970s, when I lived in Cuba and the date was widely celebrated. For years now, I’ve written an open letter—sent to the women I know, and also to the men I believe are truly concerned with women’s rights.

This year, as I sat down to compose my letter, I happened to glance at the front page of the International New York Times. Three headlines grabbed my attention...

Exploring Nicaragua, Part 1: A convoluted history

Few countries have been linked to the United Sates as long, as intimately and as painfully as Nicaragua. The relationship has always been complex, defying any generalities, and the odds are it is soon going to get a lot more complex.

As my wife and I are getting ready to depart for our first trip to Nicaragua, about which I will be writing on our return next month, I want to set the scene by discussing the peculiar, even unique, way the relationship between the countries has played out over the past century and a half...

Senate Dems thwart attempt to fast-track right-to-work bill

Retired officer talks APD abuses

UNM’s approach to incentivize graduation? Do less to graduate

Why, Pancho, Did You Invade New Mexico?

There are many lessons in the pages of our nation’s history, which we seem unable to assimilate, so we must repeat them in an endless cycle of disillusionment and destruction. We appear arrogant in our dealings with other nations, unilaterally deciding what’s best for the world, at the same time endlessly proselytizing about democracy. When foreign nationals feel that their internal lives are being manipulated and disrupted by U.S. intervention through military and monetary power, a blowback is inevitable. The infamous outlaw and revolutionist Pancho Villa raided the United States in 1916, his actions being an example of this backlash; we may extrapolate this lesson to September 11, 2001...