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.
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…
Insight New Mexico – Pete Dinelli
V.B. Price talks with attorney and Albuquerque mayoral candidate Pete Dinelli about his vision for the city.
With All Our Sun and Wind, Why Isn’t New Mexico Number One?
The extent to which the fossil fuel industry’s powerful lobbies have New Mexico’s vision of its future in their thrall can best be seen in a head-shaking omission. New Mexico is not competing to be the solar and wind power capital of the world. And we all can guess why.
It’s not about the price of technologies, not about batteries, not about the “intermittency” of wind and solar sources. These matters are handily dismissed by money, incentives, legislative will, and executive vision. It’s all about who will lose money from transitioning to renewable energy and who won’t…
Insight New Mexico – Fred Harris
V.B. Price talks with former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Fred Harris about immigration reform and "economic democracy."
Desalinization for Sprawl
I wonder what it would be like to have huge mounds of salt laced with arsenic sitting on the ground west of Albuquerque. Suppose a developer wanted to build a massive subdivision miles from the center of the city and worked a deal with Sandoval County to drill deep into the aquifer around the Rio Puerco and tap into the brackish water known to be there.
Suppose this developer started the project, used a process of desalinization, to clean the water, making promises to clean up the salt and arsenic waste, but then hit a snag in the housing market, abandoned the project, and left Albuquerque and Rio Rancho with its salt waste and poison blowing around in the wind and making its way into populated areas…