Story by Paul Ratje At the downtown mall in Las Cruces there isn’t too much life, but in September the city began a project to take down the metal shades covering the mall and put a new street through it, which should give downtown a more visible atmosphere  – and maybe even make it the [...]

Editorial by Clifton Trujillo They crowd street corners to beg for food, mostly bread crumbs, and anyone who helps them is looked upon as crazy.  They’re forced into the worst parts of town, mostly roof tops, because no one wants to associate with them.  In fact, odds are you know someone who’s killed one. Yet [...]

Story by Jacqueline McCrief With the recent murder of a young, female student at Yale University, local bomb threats and drive-by shootings, one begins to wonder, how safe is campus, especially for women, walking to their cars or homes after evening classes? “I always try to park close to the building that I have class [...]

Story by Ashton Coyle A new club on campus, Invisible Children NMSU: Schools for Schools, will soon be open to students who wish to get involved in raising awareness and money for a good cause – sponsoring the education of children in worn-torn northern Uganda. The war Invisible Children, Inc., a non-profit organization, began in [...]