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Henry and the Gays

Humphrey's World

What’s Happened to Albuquerque? Part 10: Gary Goodman and the Big Idea

Working to overcome a familiar sense of dejection after the city elections, this month, I was browsing the internet and came across the disappointing September 30th KNME mayoral debate and then, quite by accident, found myself watching a TEDxABQ on YouTube from October 14, 2012 with New Mexico real estate developer Gary Goodman. What a glaring contrast...

Operation Streamline

El Machete

KOAT picks up our Glyphosate story (video)

Although no credit was given to New Mexico Mercury, it's nice to know that some local news outlets are paying attention to our stories. After our piece on the use of Glyphosate by city, county and state governments in New Mexico, Susan Clair, who's interviewed in the article, was contacted by KOAT for their brief piece. Our original story was written by our intern Svetlana Ozden, who studies at UNM and was a former editor at the Daily Lobo...

Let’s Put God in the Driver’s Seat - The Upcoming Abortion Rights Vote

It’s always super nice when the divinity comes down out of the sky and tells us what to do, especially when we’re trying to think out thorny ethics issues like abortion.

Some folks yell at everybody else saying they are screeching with God’s voice. They want to see us ban late-term abortion.  If you disagree, they will hit you with everything they’ve got...

Hanging together—reluctantly

Edgewood is a tranquil rural village of pastures, mountains, cows and blue skies. This Edgewood is in northern California at the base of Mount Shasta, at 14,179 feet the tallest summit in the region and the second tallest anywhere in the Cascade Mountains.

Shasta’s year-round snowfield and five glaciers hang over Edgewood like a living presence, a white ghost exhaling pure, cold air over fields and homes. Rising some 11,000 feet above the village, the massive mountain doesn’t just dominate the skyline; it is the skyline. It is as if Sandia Peak rose 2 miles above Albuquerque instead of 1 mile and was sitting virtually on top of the city...

Weekly Poem: Silence of the Messengers

We hear only hush of wings
these angels who
sweep around us
never a word spoken
never a sword drawn
though their voices be strong, their hearts brave,
knowing we would not remember
if they spoke
would not remember one soft word
nor recall one firey blow...

A Window into the Martinez Administration’s Environmental Policy Decisions

Yesterday, we released a new tool to shine a light onto Governor Susana Martinez and her administration’s decisions that affect our air, land and water.

Our new website, SunshineOnMartinez.org, serves as the public’s window into the decisions of Gov. Susana Martinez and her administration that impact the air we breathe, the water we drink and the land where we live and play. On the site, you can find responses to Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) requests, the original requests to the administration, related news, opinion and multimedia...

It’s Still About Choice

We’ve all been privy to public service announcements and commercial advertisements urging us to spend money we don’t have in order to save an economy being squandered by our elected officials and the corporations that increasingly pull their puppet strings. During the 1960s and ‘70s we often said we wished the military had to hold a bake sale to fund its B-52s and that ordinary people might have access to government funding for projects as worthy as peace and education...

Health Reform Update: Off to a Rocky Start

The Health Insurance Exchange is the only mechanism we have at the moment to extend health care to the uninsured and I was as disappointed as anyone with the Federal Exchange’s inability to handle the high volume of hits to its website and then to fix the problems two weeks into implementation.  I hear it is getting better but still not smooth sailing...