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Art for the people - Mexico and New Mexico, then and now
There are few countries where public art is more vibrant than in Mexico. In any part of that country it often seems that every ancient ruin, plaza or green space, building, wall, or simple dish of food was made to delight the senses.
Continue reading...New Mexico’s Economic Drought
17. April 2013
The economy in New Mexico has about as much life as a drooping mat of browning prickly pears. It’s true. Finding a job here is a struggle, and our armies of unemployed, underemployed and discouraged workers should know we’re not hallucinating. Maybe we will find some validation in this.
Continue reading...Going home homeless
17. April 2013
Going Home Homeless is a personal account of a graduate student who returns home to document the history and culture of the acequia that has sustained her village for centuries...
Continue reading...Insight New Mexico - NM Music Commissioner Rick Huff
16. April 2013
This week V.B. Price talks with music commissioner Rick Huff about the often overlooked New Mexico music scene and how it's poised to make a huge revenue and culture impact if given the right support.
Continue reading...The Coming Water Wars in Mexico
14. April 2013
Once forbidden as a transgression of God’s natural laws, irrigated agriculture backed by increasingly deep wells and the most advanced farming machinery has become the norm. Mennonite farmers are meeting—and taking advantage of—the challenges of climate change and intensifying drought cycles by embracing the most unsustainable practices of capital-intensive, resource-depleting agribusiness...
Continue reading...Syncretism for the twenty-first century: Some notes from Mexico
12. April 2013
The word syncretism generally describes a blending of two disparate, often antagonistic, elements. One dominates, but sensitive observation easily unearths the other. The conquered culture remains, often in powerful ways.
Continue reading...Taking a stand on the Rio Grande
11. April 2013
In the final days before the expected destruction of the Asarco stacks in El Paso, critics have not ceased their demands for a halt to the demolition on environmental and public health grounds.
Continue reading...Foreign infiltration of U.S. uranium industry?
10. April 2013
Uranium Producers of America elect executive of Russian-government owned uranium company as President
Continue reading...Insight New Mexico: Don Hancock
08. April 2013
This week Don Hancock, one of country's leading experts on nuclear waste, discusses the proposed transfer of high-level radioactive waste from the Hanford site in Washington state to the WIPP site in Southern New Mexico.
Continue reading...Toxic stalemate on the Animas river
04. April 2013
Eight hundred gallons a minute of toxic custard-yellow water pours out of the mouths of four mines around the ghost town of Gladstone, Colorado. Zinc, copper, cadmium, iron, lead, aluminum, and manganese flow down Cement Creek into the Animas River just south of Silverton...
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18. April 2013
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