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Incoming president of Northern New Mexico College, outgoing Attorney General Hector Balderas, will be paid more than his three predecessors. His incoming salary has been set by the college’s board of regents at $232,500. Both interim president Dr. Barbara Medina and her predecessor, Richard Bailey, were paid $180,000 a year. Balderas has a 3 1/2 -year contract. The almost 30% increase in the salary seems excessive for someone who has never operated an institution of higher learning. Balderas has no record of work in academia. What he lacks in e...
Few persons would think of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as appropriate Thanksgiving-season reading. Many among us, for some strange reason, prefer to imagine him delivering it under a searing sun and in soggy humidity. Perhaps we confuse the month of the battle with the month of the ceremony initiated to honor those who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. Absurdly and challenging the imagination, over 7,000 soldiers died. The fighting lasted three days, from July 1 through July 3, 1863. Lincoln’s spellbinding address at Gettysburg, which...
Yes, we’re all tired. Tired of the isolation, the restrictions, the lines, the shortages, the rude people and the ignorant ones who don’t understand safety practices, the cumbersome way we must operate, the dull routine and inability to socialize and travel. It shows in our state’s positive case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths. To make matters worse, Thanksgiving came along and people hit the apathy button and traveled against health officials’ recommendations. Add to that the good news of a vaccine arriving any time, which has lulled...
It’s become a perennial expectation that a senator or representative feels the need to tweak the lottery scholarship formula. They can’t stand to leave it alone. This year the honor has gone to Sen. Jacob Candelaria, D-Bernalillo. His Senate Bill 283 is titled as limiting the operational expenses and, if passed, it would do that. This is assuming no one comes along next year and changes the law again. History dictates, that is likely. However, it also removes the 30 percent of minimum revenue that would go toward scholarships and replaces it...