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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…
Loving Our Changing Homelands
No matter where you live, climate change should be on your mind. New Mexico is warming and it is drying.…
‘the economic argument holds a lot of sway in eclipsing the moral argument’
Coming up this Friday, you can watch an all-new Our Land special, “Loving Our Changing Homelands.” The show features visits…
Bring in the Reinforcements
It often feels like the news is bad, all the time, and getting worse. This week in particular I’ve cringed…
‘a little bit of colonialism and a little bit of imperialism’
Coming up this week, we’ll air an interview with Searchlight New Mexico’s investigative reporter Alicia Inez Guzmán, who covers New…