On March 14, 1954, the great labor film Salt of the Earth, a fictionalized version of a 1950 Mine, Mill strike in the zinc mines of southwestern New Mexico, premiered despite being lambasted as a communist plot, subjected to police harassment, and having one of...
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Green chile. The greatest gift New Mexico has given to the world, when you visit the Land of Enchantment, that chile is found everywhere from the most humble breakfast burrito.
The mining industry, conducting its usual anti-social, anti-environmental, and exploitative behavior, is pushing for new rules in New Mexico to escape having to go through a variance process to pollute.
The Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico (and presumably Chihuahua as well, but the Mexican side of the drought is completely ignored by most environmental journalists) is undergoing what ecologists call "state change," where the grasslands are declining into a permanent scrub desert that radically transforms...
Marjorie Childress reports on a New Mexico lawmaker opposing right-to-know legislation on fracking: “It’s gonna fuel litigation, radical fringe groups, who don’t understand the process of what we do and.
I know everyone is focused on Wisconsin today, and rightfully so. But there's a race I care deeply about in New Mexico. Martin Heinrich, who currently represents the 1st Congressional.
Dear Brown People of Northern New Mexico, Please let me move into your communities so I can find meaning in my spiritually dead consumerist life. I will still consume your cultures, driving up property values, and forcing many of you to sell your land. But...
While the nation plunges ahead with fracking, it's worth reminding ourselves of the inconsistent enforcement of existing environmental regulations. That so much of the enforcement resides with the states combines.
New Mexico governor Susana Martinez (and someone who I'd recommend as a good Intrade bet for the Republican VP nominee) has made her name for cracking down on illegal immigration,.