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‘One of the things that poetry taught me was patience….’
On Monday, I had the pleasure of sitting down in the studio with New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp. We…
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Before it was disbanded, state task force gave hope to Indigenous families with missing or murdered loved ones
Zachariah Juwaun Shorty was a compassionate, fun-loving 23-year-old who enjoyed making music and tattooing. A father, a brother and a…
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“It really comes down to profits over people.”
To understand how two recent bills passed by the Albuquerque City Council will thwart efforts by South Valley neighborhoods to…
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Machine Gun Manny
There’s no down-the-middle, dispassionate way to characterize the story that appeared Oct. 26 on the Albuquerque Journal’s front page under…
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Goodbye to a good-hearted reporter
Last week, the Albuquerque City Council passed two bills from Councilor Dan Lewis. One abolished the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality…
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News for the People
I’ve approached this space recently with a clear idea of what I wanted to say: context on the importance of…
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Where’s F2754—and what might her future hold?
“We can’t solve a problem unless we can name it. Name the problems. Talk about them. Seek solutions.” That advice,…
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Citizens’ Defense
By all official accounts, nearly a decade of federal oversight for the Albuquerque Police Department is lumbering to an end.…
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Shhh…Listen
“I like to call [the Gila River] a reference river, a place that we can come and learn how rivers…
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Love and Memory on New Mexico in Focus
…from the beginning of time,in childhood, I thoughtthat pain meantI was not loved.It meant I loved. -Louise Glück, “First Memory”…
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Coming up Friday: Listening to the Gila
More than four years ago, the Our Land crew visited the Gila River to report on plans to divert water…
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Back in the Classroom
It crystallized many of the things we tried to do with that show, which was get at the underlying causes…
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