To the Point with Mick Rich
Mick Rich will provide articles once or twice a week. Some will address New Mexico issues and some will talk about national issues.
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Can Heinrich's Achilles Tendon take him down?
New Mexico's Washington Democrat Senator Martin Heinrich misidentifies a bighorn sheep as an elk.
New Mexico Democrat leaders may look the same, but there are NM's Santa Fe Democrats and NM's Washington Democrats. They may have started out at the same place, but their power and money come from different sources, and they do not always get along, such as Martin Heinrich and Deb Haaland.
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"We're scared of Kamala Harris; she put black men like me in prison."
Washington Post, "Crime lab scandal, photo Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP.
 I have often reflected on a conversation I had with a buddy. I shared the articles I wrote with him and expected pushback, but I was surprised with his response; he told me he was supporting Trump. Then he explained, "Kamala Harris puts black men like me in prison." Carla Bell's editorial in the Miami Herald, "Black Americans should hold their adoration—Kamala Harris has done real damage." explains why.
 Shock and Awe
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Murder mystery fans know. Guilty is who loads the bullet.
Can you tell which is the live round and which is the blank?
We have all watched countless action movies and murder mysteries in which actors are killed or wounded on film, not in real life. That is why it was so surprising that Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot, and director Joel Souza was injured on the set of Rust.
The Santa Fe Justice Department, the media, and Hollywood have reported that an irresponsible twenty-two-year-old Armorer and an angry old Hollywood actor behaving recklessly were responsible for the death and injury on the movie set. But are they?
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