Editorial by Jeremy Joustra As a sports fan, these past few weeks have felt like paradise.  The football season has been filled with great games and storylines up to this point, both college and pro. The NBA season just began, and looks to be more competitive than it has been in years. College basketball is [...]

Story by Melissa Aguilera The Mesilla Valley Maze, located on Picacho Avenue near Fairacres, has been a tradition of fun and education for 11 years now in southern New Mexico. Families come to enjoy all the numerous farm-related activities each fall. “As long as people leave with a smile on their face, we know they [...]

Story by Dalal Boresli Mariachi musicians were on hand for the grand opening of The Uno Advertising at Roberto’s Mexican Food on Oct. 28 when Edmundo Resendez, owner of Las Cruces advertising agency, celebrated with his family and friends at Roberto’s Mexican Food. Resendez said opening an advertising agency at this time is beneficial for small businesses [...]

Editorial by Katy Barnitz Why look at the sign when the real thing is right there? During a recent trip to the Petrified Forest National Park, looking out at the many mounds of rocks that gradate from red to orange creating Arizona’s painted desert, something stood in my way. An informational sign, featuring multiple pictures [...]

Story by Ashton Coyle In this video, Orta talks about the 2010 auditions and her goals for this year’s production. Auditions for The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, A Prayer, both part of Las Cruces’ V-Day 2010, will be held on the third floor of New Mexico State University’s Corbett Center [...]

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 [...]