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Quakes, methane production linked in northern New Mexico

21. September 2014

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The Spanx purchase lives on

21. September 2014

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‘Dysfunctional’ court system fuels overcrowding

21. September 2014

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Local authors fume as Bezos holds secret Santa Fe retreat

21. September 2014

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Court approves pot questions on Santa Fe and Bernalillo ballots

19. September 2014

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A Hope in That Which is Not Seen

19. September 2014

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By Ed Merta A Hope in That Which is Not Seen

Reflections on the People’s Climate March in New Mexico this weekend. 

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Albuquerque Grief Circle

19. September 2014

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By Mark Rudd

Last Sunday afternoon about a dozen old Jews and a handful of non-Jewish comrades, most dressed in black to signify mourning, gathered on a sidewalk outside the Jewish Community Center on Wyoming NE. The members of Jewish Voice for Peace--veterans of protest and organizing since Vietnam--hadn’t been able to come up with any better way to respond to Israel’s massacre of two-thousand people in Gaza than this grief circle.  So, in the hot noonday sun, against the noise of three lanes of Sunday afternoon Heights traffic, they recited the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, then read aloud the names of hundreds of Palestinian children killed...

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ABQ council passes overhaul of police oversight system

19. September 2014

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Santa Feans to march for action on climate change

19. September 2014

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Journal Poll: Registered voters support pot legalization, near tie for “likely voters”

19. September 2014

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