Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

Let's treat everybody like people

The state legislative leadership recently announced that they were going to the people to get suggestions for the use of the interest running into the hundreds of millions generated by our $6 billion Heritage Fund.

Thus far, the legislature has no consensus on the definition of “heritage” so we are not sure where the money ought to go. Consequently, they have been using it to fill the fisc...