In my last column, I wrote about how the Santa Teresa Port of Entry, on New Mexico’s border with Mexico, came to be established in 1993, and how it was the state’s best hope of capitalizing on the U.S.’s growing trade with Mexico.

Death and money aren’t fun subjects to bring up over dinner. Yet families who make time for that awkward chat now can spare deep regrets and potentially millions in lost dollars.

When I was in college, I had a dorm suitemate at the University of New Mexico who was from Anthony, N.M. He invited a group of us to come to his house and to go on the then-obligatory drinking tour of Juárez, Mexico.

Logan Zielinski, a high-school senior in Sterling Heights, Mich., spent much of the fall getting wooed by football coaches at small Midwestern colleges. Scholarships were a major part of their pitches.

NEW YORK — More than 75 million student loan borrowers have enrolled in the U.S. government’s newest repayment plan since it launched in August.