I know Bob Nolan and the boys long ago taught you that tumbleweeds were a charming part of the West: But in fact, tumbleweeds, actually Russian thistle, is a nasty invasive species that when combined with the kind of drought presently afflicting the West, become...
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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.
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 groundwater below its mining sites, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican The law could...
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.
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 District (Albuquerque basically) is running to replace Jeff Bingaman in the Senate. So the primary...
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.
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, in particular supporting a bill to not allow undocumented people to get a drivers' license....