Author Archives | V.B. Price
V.B. Price is editor and co-founder of New Mexico Mercury. He is the former editor of Century Magazine and New Mexico Magazine, former city editor of the New Mexico Independent, and long-time columnist for the late Albuquerque Tribune. His latest book is The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He retired as the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at UNM Press in 2010. He has taught in the UNM Honors Program since l986.
Fairness in America’s poorest state
When you think about the governor signing into law tax breaks for incoming corporations and vetoing a dollar hike in the minimum wage, and add to that the more than 13 % tuition hike passed by the UNM Regents yesterday, you get the feeling that reality has slipped a cog in our poor state, the poorest per capita in the nation according to Census Bureau data released in January...
Continue reading...No Hanford waste at WIPP
08. April 2013
If the DOE and the state of New Mexico collude to allow 3.2 million gallons of high level nuclear waste from Hanford, Washington to be stored at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) near Carlsbad, it would be a blatant and disgusting betrayal of public trust...
Continue reading...Insight New Mexico: Don Hancock
08. April 2013
This week Don Hancock, one of country's leading experts on nuclear waste, discusses the proposed transfer of high-level radioactive waste from the Hanford site in Washington state to the WIPP site in Southern New Mexico.
Continue reading...Brutal and subtle violence
03. April 2013
Vice President Biden was right when he said that the issue of violence against women transcends politics. It was Biden, himself the master politician, however,who authored the l994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and who spurred its reauthorization by Congress last month...
Continue reading...Insight New Mexico: Richard Fox
01. April 2013
V.B. Price talks with political scientist Richard Fox on Susana Martinez' performance as Governor.
Continue reading...Vetoing the minimum wage hike
01. April 2013
There’s no other word for it. It’s disgusting --the rancid logic of “job creation” that prides itself in getting desperate people to work for low wages they cannot live on, forcing them to often hold down two slave-wage jobs just to make ends meet. It’s class warfare at its worst – the moneyed against the working poor.
Continue reading...Backtracking
28. March 2013
The Central New Mexico Community Collage (CNM) administration must have realized that its impulsive and, as its sister publication the Daily Lobo called it, “authoritarian” censorship and closure of its student newspaper, the Chronicle, had caused them a tsunami of negative PR. It backtracked and reversed itself in a day, returning the confiscated “Sex” edition, reopening the paper for business, and waxing on about how student journalists had to be better trained and overseen.
Continue reading...Shut down of the Chronicle a disaster for CNM
27. March 2013
The sudden shut down of the Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) student newspaper, the Chronicle, is an educational disaster for CNM. An outright act of censorship, the closure of the paper makes CNM seem like a bush league school. And, of course, it is not.
Continue reading...Guns
25. March 2013
Those who deny the inherent danger of firearms are in the same category as those who deny human impact on climate change or the link between tobacco and cancer.
Continue reading...A new voice in a changing media landscape
25. March 2013
The launch of the New Mexico Mercury is the latest step in a journey that began at a community meeting in Albuquerque more than four years ago aimed at saving the Albuquerque Tribune...
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10. April 2013
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