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Tribes, Power, and Water

A dried-up river flanked by greenery.

Sept. 11, 2020 – In the western United States, rivers like the Colorado River and the Rio Grande were carved up under compacts in the early twentieth century, long before tribes had a say in how rivers would be managed. Even though tribes hold the oldest and most senior water rights, they still don’t always…

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Political Polls

Illustration of numbers scrambled with each other in a pile.

September 11, 2020 – The Albuquerque Journal recently published polls on the presidential, Senate, and congressional races here in New Mexico. Gene Grant and The Line look at the results, what they might signal for strategy in the remaining few weeks of the campaign, and how results look when voters are asked to describe themselves…

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