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Senate committee advances bill that would pave the way for commercial hemp production
11. February 2015
Oil pipeline plans ignites controversy near San Juan Basin
11. February 2015
Bill would allow healthcare employers to pass on smoking applicants
11. February 2015
Charlie Hebdo and Baudelaire’s Laughter
10. February 2015
To the Frech poet and author Charles Baudelaire, the essence of laughter was the ultimate fool’s errand, yet the pen of the “licensed fool” often acts as a necessary strike at ideological tyranny.
Continue reading...Dispatch from ‘Tent City’
10. February 2015
This week, the City of Albuquerque issued eviction notices to the residents of "Tent City." That is, to those residents who haven't been ran off, arrested or bribed out with a weekly voucher to a motel. By Thursday all must be out and gone; to go who knows where. My name is Vincent and I write this not just as a journalist but as someone who has been a part of the street life here downtown for over 20 years.
The people being talked about on the various stations as residents of Tent City are my friends. I have eaten with them, gotten high, and walked these streets alongside just about every one of those who live here in what is now known as “Tent City.”...
Continue reading...Four APS high schools see double-digit graduation decline
10. February 2015
Espanola principal to contact FBI after student throws U.S. flag
10. February 2015
Bill to help pregnant workers faces next test in committee
10. February 2015
11. February 2015
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