Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project’s board president Max Yeh is a novelist and writes widely on language, interpretation, history, and culture. He has lived in Hillsboro, New Mexico, for more than 30 years after retiring from an academic career in literature, art history and critical theory.
Have you looked at the ballot yet? I just did today, and I don't understand it. This happens every time I read a ballot. It's not at all like sitting in a meeting and discussing an issue with the others and voting on it. The ballot is insanely opaque.
Two weeks ago, The Conversation published a summary of Vice-President Harris's and former President Trump's past actions and policies during their political careers in regard to healthcare in the nation. The article is by Dr. Zachary W. Schultz of Auburn University, a specialist in the history of healthcare.
My cousin, a nephrologist, says that commodification of medicine has turned American doctors into contractual slaves, indentured servants. Thinking about this, I realized that not many of us actually understand what commodification means and why it is harmful for healthcare as a system. This is my explanation.
Susan Dunlap, of New Mexico Political Report, reports on the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee's discussion of the state of New Mexico's hospitals. In previous posts I have presented readings about the national health care system. Here, with this republication, we look at specific issues closer to home.
In September, the Commonwealth Fund released its eighth comparative report on health care systems in 10 wealthy and comparable nations, the US among them. How did we do and why?
Readers of the Citizen have gifted us with a cloudburst of generosity, and we are grateful for the healing waters in this desert land. This process of social relationship is an act of communication, which has just been discovered to function through all life forms.
Republication of article by "Capital & Main" in New Mexico Political Report, September 12, 2024. Its topic is the wastewater produced in fracking for gas and oil operations in New Mexico: its toxicity, the earthquakes produced by its injection into the ground, and the proposal to reuse it.
For us older people living in Sierra County (and there are an unusually large number of us), this bit of news might be welcomed: a common drug usually prescribed for type 2 diabetes has been shown to slow down the aging process in monkeys that are very like us.
One of the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision is the lack of abortion care training for medical residents training to become OB-GYN doctors in states where abortion care is banned. This is a republication of an article by Susan Dunlap in New Mexico Political Report, September 11,2024.
In New Mexico, horse racetracks have become centers of political power. This is a republication of a September 11 article by Noah Raess and Joshua Bowling in Searchlight New Mexico.
Attorneys for the state say that landowners are refusing to comply with a 2022 NM Supreme Court ruling allowing public access to rivers and streams. Republication of article by Danielle Prokop, of Source NM, September 6, 2024.
Republication of an article by Ed Williams, from Searchlight New Mexico, July 18, 2024, describing the choices undocumented people in Las Cruces face in dealing with serious health issues that can only be treated in Albuquerque.
