Elfego Baca Shootout: 3-Mile Mountain Golf Course (with 1 Hole)

The Elfego Baca Shootout takes place this Saturday, a 1-hole, 3-mile golf-course down Socorro Peak, a mountain in New Mexico. "There's only one tee box at the Elfego Baca Shootout, and it's perched 2,550 feet above the hole and nearly three miles away."The event has been held...

Will we cost out Capital Punishment soon?

Perhaps this is how capitalist societies stay honest. Rather than abolish laws that seem outdated and cause controversy, they just raise the bar to make them too costly to execute ... " Mr. O’Malley, a Democrat and a Roman Catholic who has cited religious opposition to...

Christian Bale's Terminator rant remixed as dance song

Christian Bale's Terminator rant meltdown has been remixed by DJ Revolucian as a dance song called 'Bale Out'. Bale lashed out at Director of Photography Shane Hurlbut on the set of Terminator Salvation when he accidentially walked into a shot on the New Mexico set just days...

Missing Absentee Ballots Posing Problems For New Mexico

As the morning of United States Election Day 2008 had kicked off, several states had reported voting issues at the polls. There have been reports early in the morning of voting machine problems in Virginia and New Jersey. There have been reports of problems caused by rainy...

Obama Presidency Will Galvanize 30 Million American Idealists and Reformers, ...

by Stephen Fox, Contributing Editor, New Mexico Sun News Founder, New Millennium Fine Art As introduction, I must say that Paul Newman's passing has saddened me profoundly, not because of any of his movies, but because of a personal memory which stirs up in me now, as I...

Local Flavor: Battle Drive Thru

Mike at Roberto’s, security at Si Senor Si Senor, a local favorite for fine mexican food, just opened Si Senor Express a few blocks from Roberto’s. Roberto’s has long been the standard for good drive thru mexican food. In fact, Roberto’s is pretty much the...