New Mexico Mercury

Insight New Mexico - Nandini Kuehn

V.B. Price talks with Nandini Kuehn, Board President for New Mexico Health Connections, about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and its impact on New Mexico. She explains the benefits, dispels myths and gives a thorough breakdown of how Obamacare is already operating in the state.

New Mexico Alcatraz

In the fall of l979, a number of reporters, including myself, toured the New Mexico state prison, Old Main as it was called, a few miles southwest of Santa Fe. We were to meet a new warden and get something of an inside look at the grim surroundings, including an up close inspection of the gas chamber

This was something less than four months before the February riot at the penitentiary, considered by many as the most brutal and sadistic prison uprising in American history, worse even than Attica in l971...

Provincial Matters, 8-13-2013

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

Insight New Mexico - State Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino

V.B. Price talks with State Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino about the details of the recent behavioral health scandal that saw 15 non-profit providers defunded and 5 out-of-state for-profit companies awarded a short-term $18 million contract.

Tom Udall’s Campaign Against Global Warming

When I saw videos of two feet of hail in the streets of Santa Rosa in early July, and felt the power 10 days ago of the most intense wind and rain storm Albuquerque has ever seen, I thought of Senator Tom Udall’s line, “If anyone still denies that climate change is real, I invite them to come to New Mexico.”

Having seen the predictions of climate change scientists come to life, it’s heartening to know that New Mexico’s senior senator is among the most outspoken politicians in the country when it comes to confronting the reality of our changing atmosphere...

Provincial Matters, 8-5-2013

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

Insight New Mexico - Dorinda Moreno

V.B. Price talks with Dorinda Moreno and Sadie Vialpando Williams about their efforts to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the landmark New Mexico film Salt of the Earth.

Anti-women petition on the city ballot

It looks likely that a petition to ban abortions in Albuquerque after 20 weeks will make it on to the ballot this October in the municipal elections.

Chances are this blatantly sexist, sinister, anti-woman initiative will make this city election one of the most hotly contested since the l970s.

Any candidate who thinks they can skirt reality and not take sides on this matter should be banished from politics and never heard from again...

Provincial Matters, 7-29-2013

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

Insight New Mexico - Richard Fox

V.B. Price talks with political scientist and scholar Richard Fox about the ongoing issue of poverty in New Mexico.