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All We’ve Surveyed: Five Years After the Gold King Mine Spill

A gold-tinted river flows.

By Laura Paskus Five years ago, crews reopening an abandoned mine in the mountains of southern Colorado breached a containment wall, spewing three million gallons of mining waste into a tributary of the Animas River. Given the mine’s alpine location—which averages 15 feet of snow each year—fieldwork is limited and conditions can change drastically between…

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Covering COVID-19 in the Carlsbad Area

CG illustration of a coronavirus.

August 7, 2020 – As part of an ongoing series of conversations with journalists covering COVID-19 in their communities, correspondent Laura Paskus talks to Jessica Onsurez, editor of the Carlsbad Current-Argus. Onsurez and her reporters are covering the virus in southeastern New Mexico, a part of the state where case prevalence continues to rise amid resistance to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s…

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