This is the third part of my analysis of Supreme Court Alito's Louisiana v. Callais ruling. In it I discuss the mostly unacknowledged undertow that pulls his argument together and the way those currents come out of the Court's decades-long destruction of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Semi-open primaries come to New Mexico. It’s historic. But what is it?
The second part of my long read of Justice Alito's decision in Louisiana v. Callais is a direct analysis of his argument with attention to his use of two ambiguous words, "discrimination" and "intention," and his construction of a history of cases that lead to his decision.
Press Release from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation: The New Mexico Bumble Bee Atlas Project is looking for volunteers to participate. There will be a hands-on learning session at the Percha Dam State Park on Thursday, May 14, from 9am until noon.
I begin a four articles long study of the Supreme Court decision on elections in Louisiana v. Callais. The articles are difficult with a lot of information, legal concepts, and linguistic analysis. I hope you will tackle it because voting may not be voting anymore.
From the Other Side was meant to provide views of news events at odds with the prevalent American media view. Today, I am adding another side. This is a posting on poetry, which, as the subject of this article has said, is what can’t be said in words.
Decisions about water are oddly complex, balancing private and public interests. Understanding hydrology helps resolve some of that complexity. This is an informational piece on groundwater, streams, riparian trees, and us to help make our decisions more reasonable.
If the residents and Village of Williamsburg Trustees are not critically evaluating what their under-contract engineers are proposing, if they are just going along, the engineering firm will seek to maximize its profits instead of saving residents money, which appears to be the case.
T or C and the Village of Williamsburg could use storm water to green up, but dump
it, polluted, into the river. We pay nearly $9 per 1,000 gallons to pump and treat sewer water into "effluent" that waters the golf course and parks. It's cheaper to intercept storm water.
Do you think T or C and Williamsburg polycart customers should pay more so rich new homeowners at the Turtleback Mountain Resort can pay less to have their trash hauled and recycle for free? An expansion of the T or C collection center is proposed to accommodate them.
The city must cram capital projects over a few years that should be spread over 20 or so. Must, because the city is leaking 57 percent of the water it produces in warm months. Must, because the city was under an order by the NMED to fix the sewer.
The City of T or C is considering how much to increase water and sewer rates and T or C City Manager Gary Whitehead came to the Village of Williamsburg April 9 Trustee meeting to explain what effect such increases could have on Villagers. It’s complicated, because the Village owns…