Author Archives: Patrick Lamb

New Mexico and Texas have suffered years of hostile legal wranglings about water rights involving the Pecos and Rio Grande rivers. Virtually all of the Pecos River water originates in New Mexico and a good splash of the Rio Grande comes from New Mexico watersheds. It’s our (New Mexico’s) water, damn it. Texas thinks it’sContinue reading “Sailing Putin’s yacht up the Rio Grande to El Paso…”

–Millard Hunsley, veteran copy desk editor My wife recently spotted the following puzzling first paragraph of a story in our local newspaper: “A judge dismissed a motion Friday that would’ve held a man accused of shooting at a woman in jail.” So was the man shooting at the woman while she was in jail? IContinue reading “Throw over the fence the horse some hay…”

Police in Clovis arrested two men recently for attempting to sell a stolen set of aluminum bleachers at a metal recycling facility. After receiving a report of missing bleachers at a city park and a tip from the metal recycling company, police concluded that the two men had swiped the bleachers in an attempt toContinue reading “Does parking your car next to a dumpster mean it’s free?”

On my way to the Las Cruces city dump, I found this unusual recycled school bus parked along the route.   It may be hard to see in this photo, but much of the bus has been “re-engineered” with sheets of plywood that blocked out some windows and were attached on top to support whatContinue reading “Expect less than excellence…”

We’ve finished watching the 2022 Olympics with less enthusiasm than we have watched the event in past years.  There just wasn’t an “it” factor in the games, with lots of irritating distractions on so many levels. One thought that occurred to me as I watched what seemed to be an overload of TV coverage ofContinue reading “Does curling reinforce bad stereotypes?”

The circus has come to town in Las Cruces. It is the Do Portugal Circus, which I understand is based in Mexico and travels around to smaller markets in the United States. It will be here for about a week and one-half. The large purple and white tent started setting up two weeks ago inContinue reading “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas…”

A Santa Fe couple on vacation last month returned to their home to discover a man who had been living in their house while they were gone. While staying in the home for an unknown number of days, the man helped himself to food in the refrigerator and some beer. He had been sleeping inContinue reading “It wasn’t listed on Airbnb, but he left a security deposit anyway…”

Hang on to your seat. This is going to be hard driving piece of investigative journalism. PSSSST!!! I know where to find Mexican bologna.  My interest was piqued late last year when I learned about the arrest of a man smuggling Mexican bologna into the US inside a spare tire in a vehicle headed toContinue reading “The Mexican bologna confidential…”

Chester picked it wrong for the Super Bowl, going for Cincinnati over the Rams. He fears he has lost a lifetime supply of Milk Bones with his bet. And he apologizes for all of you who lost bets by following his pick.   But ever the optimist, Chester says “woof.” (Meaning there’s always next year.)

Last year, we challenged our rambunctious goldendoodle, Chester, to pick the Super Bowl by selecting one of two differently colored squeaky balls tossed to him in our back yard. He correctly picked Tampa Bay, so with a 1-0 record of choosing the winner, here is a video of his pick this year between the CincinnatiContinue reading “Chester picks the Super Bowl!!!”

Be sure to check tomorrow’s blog for a high quality video giving you an inside edge to win some big bucks at the Super Bowl this Sunday. 

Really. This is getting silly. A further read of the story which prompted my blog a couple of weeks ago revealed that a woman from Colorado passing through New Mexico was busted for smuggling an even bigger stash of Mexican bologna. This time, agents found 188 pounds of the meat stashed away in various placesContinue reading “And even more baloney…”

Maybe we should start being concerned about this trend.  In December, I wrote a blog about a man who was caught illegally transporting Mexican bologna into the United States at El Paso. The bologna had been stuffed inside a spare tire in the New Mexico man’s pickup truck. Spare tires are common places used toContinue reading “More baloney…”

A story in last week’s Albuquerque Journal gave me a double take. It was reported that a bull moose had somehow wandered into the town of Shiprock, NM, and was considered to be a potential threat to the local human population. Okay, take a deep breath. A moose in Shiprock? Now I don’t want toContinue reading “What’s next? Caribou in Carlsbad???”