Laid off at 40, Grigulevich reinvents himself as an author of popular Russian nonfiction about South America

Joseph Grigulevich in his latter years

Moscow, 1954-1988, With no job prospects in Moscow, Grigulevich begins to write about South America and the Roman Catholic Church, and finds an enthusiastic audience among young Russians interested in the outside world.

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What you need to know, September 28, 2025: Jupiter Project

Screen shot of the website https://projectjupitertogether.com/ on my computer.

Doña Ana County has approved the construction in Santa Teresa (near El Paso) of the $165 billion Jupiter Project. What does that mean?

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T or C will ask for $3 million in capital outlay for top 5 capital projects

The Roundhouse, image courtesy of Wikipedia

Hooray! Transparency comes to the city's capital outlay lobbying process, thanks to City Manager Gary Whitehead. The city will be much more prepared for the legislative session and city commissioners, lobbyist and staff will all be singing from the same sheet of music. Add your voice to the chorus.

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Just to be clear

Eugenics_Society_Exhibit_(1930s), showing placards explaining Galtonian eugenics.

Everyone agrees that America changed with the election and re-election of our present President, but they all disagree about what that change is and if the change is good, bad, or ugly. My two-cents worth is that American eugenics has changed to pop-eugenics, and pop-eugenics rules the day.

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Grigulevich would have found Jewish soul brothers and kindred spirits at Capital Pharmacy

This is 82 E. San Francisco St., once the site of Capital Pharmacy — the first Santa Fe drug store with a soda fountain, ice cream and a juke box. The photo looks west to where Zook’s was. When I took this photo in 2018, it was home to Simply Southwest Trading Post. Today, it’s the Maya Gallery. Photo by Tom Sharpe

Santa Fe, 1938-1940, part 2. Grigulevich might have found friendship at both Capital Pharmacy and Zook's, but the idea that either became a safe house does not square with the facts.Zook’s wasn’t the only drug store Grigulevich got to know in Santa Fe. Eight doors away was Capital Pharmacy, 82 East San Francisco (now the

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