Articles By

V.B. Price

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…

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…

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…

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…