New Mexico Mercury

Nurses and Teachers

We cannot live without them, yet our current society treats them as if their work were not what it is - a noble calling.

Provincial Matters, 10-28-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Insight New Mexico - Eleanor Bravo

V.B. Price talks with Eleanor Bravo about the societal and environmental impact of fracking in New Mexico. Eleanor is the Southwest Organizer for Food and Water Watch, an international non-profit working with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future.

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...

Provincial Matters, 10-21-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Insight New Mexico - E.A. “Tony” Mares

V.B. Price talks with poet, historian and author E.A. "Tony" Mares about the book he helped write as well as the concept of "Resolana" and the those who have embodied the concept from Padre Antonio Jose Martinez forward.

Provincial Matters, 10-14-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Insight New Mexico - Susan Clair

V.B. Price talks with natural health expert and cancer survivor Susan Clair about utilizing nutrition as a curative and preventative medicine.

What’s Happened to Albuquerque? Part 9: Pete Dinelli, but where are the constituents?

While I personally am going to vote for Pete Dinelli for mayor on October 8, I remain puzzled and disappointed by this election.

Dinelli is strong on badly needed police oversight and leadership restructuring, strong on marriage equality and women’s rights (he was the only candidate to oppose the move to ban abortions in Albuquerque after 20 weeks), and strong on water conservation and water quality issues, including the potential disaster of the Kirtland Air Force Base jet fuel spill.

What disappoints me is that none of those vital issues attracted in-depth coverage by local mainstream media. And if organized and outspoken constituencies formed around those issues, most of us didn’t hear about it because their activities weren’t covered...

Provincial Matters, 10-7-2013

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.