Carson National Forest in Taos County, New Mexico. Source: USDA Forest Service
“New Mexico trail clash echoes culture war across US West”
Across the United States, urban Americans able to work remotely are moving to rural places, where they seek environmentally disruptive (old-timers say) new trails to give them better access to public lands. Other newcomers, alternatively, have built fences and gates to block out members of the public formerly accustomed to crossing their property holdings to access public lands. This story examines this culture war as it is playing out in Taos, New Mexico.
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“Advocates, lawmakers renew push for RECA to include Trinity Downwinders”
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) is sponsoring a bill that would extend coverage by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to New Mexico citizens impacted by the secret Trinity Test, the world’s first nuclear weapons detonation, which took place in the Tularosa Basin in 1945. First passed in 1990 and now expiring in 2024, RECA has paid $2.5 billion to uranium workers in 11 states and downwinders in parts of three states.
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“Meet the 2 New Mexico reporters named best in nation for Native, Land coverage”
After reviewing more than 2,000 submissions, the National Federation of Press Women has honored two reporters for The Paper, the online Albuquerque-based alternative news p u b l i c a t i o n . Jonathan Sims and Gwynne Ann Unruh won first place awards in the areas of Native American and land reportage, respectively.
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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.
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