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NM lawmakers to consider minimum wage increase
02. February 2015
Proposed UNM center would aim to reduce child abuse in NM
02. February 2015
Work continues on monument to honor Vietnam veterans in Las Cruces
02. February 2015
NM dance center hopes to make jobs through creating art
02. February 2015
Weaponizing Children
02. February 2015
It has been done before—weaponizing children. Of course in the US we aren’t talking about explosive belts but about the use of children to undermine public education and further political ambition. The term “social conservative” is a case of contradiction—what is being conserved has not to do with society at large. What is being conserved and expanded is wealth for a relative few while the remainder of society is being disenfranchised and impoverished—slowly perhaps but inexorably. And the impoverishment goes beyond money as it destroys dignity and self-respect. Taking over public education is an instrument of impoverishment, a weapon directed against children...
Continue reading...Provincial Matters, 2-2-2015
02. February 2015
V.B. Price's weekly collection of observations and appreciations.
Continue reading...Goodbye, Tony
31. January 2015
Albuquerque, New Mexico, the world of justice, and poetry lost E. A. “Tony” Mares just after noon on January 30, 2015. Tony was gentle and kind but tough and righteous when the situation called for those qualities. With deep roots in this land and its people, his scholarship extended to Spain and Mexico in search of early events and figures of relevance; and showed up in his prolific poetry, articles, and in the memories of generations of grateful students...
Continue reading...Increase in vaccination exceptions a concern for New Mexico
30. January 2015
02. February 2015
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