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‘They need to be doing more work that solves human problems.’
On last week’s episode of New Mexico in Focus, I hosted two conversations about the proposed new transmission line to…
Friday’s show: Caja del Rio
Last week, the U.S. Forest Service announced that a proposed new transmission line to Los Alamos National Laboratory will have…
Learn about connecting with landscape and community!
Over the past few years, I’ve worked with educator Mollie Parsons to develop lesson plans for New Mexico middle school…
Burn It
Feeling some gloom in your life? Of course you are, but what to do? If you’re a New Mexican, you…
Water management as a tool for taking land
Last week, I wrote that I wouldn’t visit your inbox until September 10. But I didn’t want to take a…
Rio Chama sediment, atomic bomb survivors, and more
This week on New Mexico in Focus, the University of New Mexico’s Dr. K. Maria Lane joins me in the…
Solutions Not Scapegoats, Please
It’s been nearly a year since I’ve used this space to write about homelessness, an issue that seems to be…
‘Home’s the place we head for in our sleep.’
Yesterday, we visited the Pueblo of Acoma and saw the field we filmed in early April in its full green…
A Quarter Century of Civil Liberties
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks hadn’t yet occurred when Peter Simonson took over as executive director of the American Civil…
As courts usurp federal regulatory authority, New Mexicans will suffer ‘grave harm’
Everyone likes having clean water to drink or clean air to breathe. Yet, industry and industry-backed politicians and judges continue eroding…
‘There is no more local story than the environment’
Dear friends, Last week, NMPBS’s Antony Lostetter and I headed back up to Mora, after filming there with our colleague…
Revisiting Food Justice in New Mexico
This week, we revisit “Food Justice in NM & Woodstock Oral Histories,” an episode we first ran in April. The…