New Mexico Mercury

Provincial Matters, 9-9-2013

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

Insight New Mexico - Linda Lopez

V.B. Price talks with state senator and gubernatorial candidate Linda Lopez about the direction our state has taken under the Martinez administration.

What’s Happened to Albuquerque? Part 8: The Apolitical City

Water scarcity is nowhere to be found in a mayoral race seemingly void of real issues.

Provincial Matters, 9-2-2013

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

Insight New Mexico - Dede Feldman

V.B. Price gets a behind the scenes view of lobbying in New Mexico, how it works, and its influence from former State Senator Dede Feldman.

The suicide of elders and the middle-aged

Many of us, I’m sure, have had friends or acquaintances who’ve committed suicide.  And the longer we live, the ever more mysterious and frequent suicide seems to become in our experience – often to the point of grieving despair.  Those left behind inevitably search themselves for missed opportunities to have helped, misperceived clues that might have signaled a call for intervention, and failures of compassion that might have lifted someone’s burden just enough...

Provincial Matters, 8-26-2013

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

Insight New Mexico - Lance Chilton

V.B. Price talks with Lance Chilton, pediatrician and child advocate, about the importance of early childhood nutrition, its effects on intellectual development and the role of poverty on childhood health outcomes and unrealized potential.

A city with no reporters

When the Albuquerque Tribune closed its doors in February 2008, our city not only lost an afternoon daily with a blue collar, left of center slant, it also lost a pool of reporters and editors, experts in the ways of local politics, society, history, and culture.

When the Trib’s doors closed, it was like having an eye poked out. Our world became harder to see and harder to understand.

As the Albuquerque Journal gets smaller and smaller every morning, as its newsstand price goes up to compensate for falling revenue, the troubling thought crosses one’s mind of living in a city with no daily newspaper, and no pool of print reporters and editors. It would be like flying blind...

Provincial Matters, 8-19-2013

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