My penultimate column for the #DemingHeadlight, as I edge closer to the exit.
https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/11/22/thank-you-for-reading/
I feel somewhat melancholy about this, but I am saying goodbye to the Headlight and moving on.
https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/11/21/headlight-editor-depart-paper-will-continue/
A letter to the #DemingHeadlight makes a plea for restraint, even mercy, when it comes to neighborhood #fireworks.
https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/07/13/show-mercy-fireworks/
To the Editor: Who doesn’t love the Fourth of July, with its gatherings of friends and family in celebration of our country’s independence, the barbecues, pool parties and ending the day, as the sun sets, with fireworks? I grew up in a state where setting off fireworks, firecrackers and other big booming products by individuals was largely illegal. As a result, our family enjoyed attending the local community fireworks display …
An #editorial: Our community earned praise for our humanitarian response to #migrants in 2019. What a profound insult to us that Florida's state-sponsored coyotes would use our runways to kidnap human beings over our heads.
#Sacramento #asylum #RonDeSantis #Florida #immigration #NewMexico #DemingHeadlight
It is enough to make one’s skin crawl: The two chartered flights that transported unsuspecting asylum seekers from El Paso to the west coast this week took off from our own municipal airport — not some “airfield,” as the New York Times described it, but just east of our city center and right off of Deming’s commercial loop. Immigration and border security are hotly debated in New Mexico politics, and …
"It is often considered pejorative to call someone an amateur. We are as confused about this as we are about the meaning of “leisure” (to be in command of one’s own time, which is not the same thing as being idle)."
My latest column for the #DemingHeadlight, on the necessity of doing things we love and pushing back against a social system that insists on monetizing every endeavor.
https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/06/02/living-by-loving/
#leisure #life #theatre #amateur #Professionalism #philosophy #etymology #capitalism
It is often considered pejorative to call someone an amateur. We are as confused about this as we are about the meaning of “leisure” (to be in command of one’s own time, which is not the same thing as being idle). To be “amateurish” is thought to be unskilled, crude, not like a professional. The professional is genuine and the amateur is a dabbler or, worse yet, a pretender. This …
P.S. Here is one of those stories.
“…you are talking about things that are so far over our heads,” (County Manager) Brice said while struggling to conclude his presentation, as a resident stood and yelled at the commissioners about federal immigration policy: “This is on you! You have blood on your hands!”
https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/05/18/interruptions-slow-luna-county-commissioners/
#publicmeetings #journalism #LunaCounty #NewMexico #DemingHeadlight
Editorial: We have been promised, instead of an immigration system, chaos in the coming weeks — that is a quote — because Congress and the White House grasp tightly to helplessness and fall back on measures, one after another over decades, to discourage migrants’ entry instead of building systems to assess their claims and provide care. https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/05/12/immigration-refusal-govern/
The federal government is slouching toward default because there are just enough craven politicians serving in Congress who are uninterested in governing and willing to use the full faith and credit of the United States for political leverage. A more visible sign of this disdain for governance is in plain view in El Paso and numerous communities on the Mexican side of our border. It is the wailing grief of …
No emergency declarations have been made in #NewMexico, but local governments had some plans in place as the expiration of #Title42 — a federal policy allowing for the rapid ejection of asylum applicants at the southern border — loomed Thursday.
https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/05/12/luna-county-braces-title-42-end/
#immigration #asylum #border #LunaCounty #ColumbusNM #DemingNM #DemingHeadlight
Some border cities in Texas have enacted states of emergency in order to unlock resources. Arizona has rolled out a “preparedness approach” to provide shelter and assist local law enforcement, with emergency measures standing by. No emergency declarations have been made in New Mexico, but local governments had some plans in place as the expiration of Title 42 — a federal policy allowing for the rapid ejection of asylum applicants …
As a friend, I would warn people not to post on social media or even touch their phones right after receiving momentous news.
As a reporter, however, I love it when people post impulsively. This story hinges on a rage-post that was subsequently abbreviated. Otherwise, the parties were close-lipped.
https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/05/11/debbie-troyer-ousted-deming-chamber/
Deming Luna County Chamber of Commerce director Debbie Troyer will leave her position Saturday after two and a half years — the timing of which, Troyer indicated, was not voluntary. “I gave two months notice and offered my services and training in the completion of Lemonade Day,” she stated in a Facebook post, “but (the board of directors) declined and asked me to leave at the end of this week. …
Algernon D'Ammassa
