Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

Looney Times

Is the world finally coming to grips with the wrongs I endured as a child growing up in the 1970s?

I came of age before 24-hour cable news channels sensationalized childhood abductions and made every parent in America terrified that their kid was likely to become the next victim.

We '70s kids were in constant physical danger– real danger. We built wood ramps that we jumped our Spyder bikes of...