New Mexico Mercury

Here’s An Idea For Managing Growth

Innovative community/private collaboration may be the key to initiating responsible strategies of redevelopment and infill in Albuquerque.

The benefits of owning a polling company (updated)

Last week, the Albuquerque Journal ran a story that stated "Most Albuquerque voters favor a city proposal to build more trails and other recreational access through the city's riverside bosque….The support is widespread across political and demographic groups, the survey found."

Apparently the hundreds of naysayers that showed up in vehement opposition to the mayor's Rio Grande Vision on September 4th were just the vocal riffraff who only represent a small minority of people who "oppose the city's proposal to increase access to the Rio Grande and the Bosque."

Or so the Journal would have you believe...

What The Thunder Won’t Say

Stormy monsoons won’t save N.M. from its growing water crisis.

Water in New Mexico: The Quest for New Tools and Rules

For "transformational change" to occur in New Mexico water policy, all stakeholders need to be at the table.

Provincial Matters, 9-2-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Friday Voyage: Glen Canyon Region

Beneath the desert of northern Arizona and southern Utah lies a hidden world.

Why aren’t more people in ABQ concerned about the Kirtland jet fuel spill?

During the past few months, a sense of dismay and outrage about the situation has been growing in me. In March, V.B. Price wrote a NM Mercury article entitled “Kirtland Spill: Get Serious,” which was commendable for its honesty in raising red flags. I began to pay more attention to this issue. Over the summer, I read with growing alarm various Albuquerque Journal articles by John Fleck. Fleck reported that the current effort to clean up the spill, the soil vapor extraction system, was malfunctioning repeatedly and even when running was only able to extract about half of the contaminants originally projected...

New Mexico-Chihuahua Border Brouhaha

In the aftermath of a media blitz staged by the state governments of New Mexico and Chihuahua to jointly promote the development of the emerging Jeronimo-Santa Teresa borderplex, a sharp polemic over the project has rekindled in Ciudad Juarez.

Provincial Matters, 8-19-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Friday Voyage: Canyons of the Escalante

Following ancient footprints in the isolated wilderness of Utah.