New Mexico Mercury

Big foot and the tea party

New Mexico paranormal investigator, journalist and filmmaker Tony Della Flora has heat-imaging evidence Big Foot has been hanging around in the Valles Caldera. Not many people know this, but Sasquatch is the Grand Poobah for New Mexico’s Tea Party and he’s really pissed off. It seems the IRS has been asking a lot of vague questions about the NM Tea Party re. their 501 (c) (4) status.

Big Foot and his Tea Party friends want to edumuhcate New Mexicans about their ideas that are anti-government, anti-tax, anti-Obama, anti-immigration, anti-econ. stimulus, and anti-16th and 17th amendment. New Mexico’s Tea party wants to audit every family in New Mexico for constitutionality and purity. That’s why they can’t understand why the IRS wants to audit them about their non-profit status.

What Are Our Troops and Their Families Drinking at Kirtland Air Force Base and the V.A. Hospital?

KAFB sits idle amidst growing evidence and concern about water contamination.

Insight New Mexico - Richard Fox

V.B. Price talks with political scientist Richard Fox about the push for privatization of education, Skandera's ties to for-profit education interests and Gov. Martinez' liabilities for the upcoming race for Governor.

Juarez Mothers Renew International Campaign

Missing daughters and femicide haunt Mothers Day in border region.

Mr. Sheinberg’s Opus

Lessons about teaching from one of New Mexico's best after 37 years with Albuquerque Public Schools.

UNM’s Honors College: Bigger isn’t better

In a world of future shock, where nothing seems stable and change often happens for no rhyme or reason, institutions with continuity and humane values are worth preserving, even as they evolve.

The crucial thing to avoid is ruining a great and on-going achievement while trying to make it bigger and better.

The University of New Mexico’s new Honors College has morphed this year from the Honors Program, which is one of the gems of the American Honors movement. It’s regularly ranked as one of the top three programs in the nation...

Dan Foley for Gov.

Former New Mexico state rep. Dan Foley has been getting a lot of ink lately. He’s the tall, handsome guy who has appeared every week for just about forever as a conservative policy wonk on Gene Grant’s KNME TV show, New Mexico in Focus. Because of his superior wisdom and insight, Dan Foley consistently hits the nail on the head, so I always prick up my ears when Big Dan lets another brilliant and poignant pearl of wisdom fall from his lips about the insider maneuvering in New Mexico’s amazingly great state legislature...

Water fights flare in border region

Drought, water pumping, new pecan farms and dated international water treaties are all contributing to rising water tensions in the border region.

Courage in Mora County

If you knew that fallible human beings were going to drill for oil or gas through your precious groundwater would you feel confident about drinking and washing with that water? Not if you valued your health.

Of course you can’t see what actually happens when corporate persons out for profit pollute your ground water.  But it doesn’t take much imagination to suppose pollution will occur many times, if not most times, when drilling rigs and all their gear and goop go at it...

Bush’s legacy

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