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Stuff you need to know, 7.5.23

“Extreme heat is killing more people crossing the border”
by Danielle Prokop, Source NM
July 4, 2023

The death toll in the El Paso border patrol district, which includes the entirety of New Mexico, has been rising sharply since 2021, with little effort from border officials to address the loss of life beyond issuing public warnings about the dangers of crossing the desert into America between authorized ports of entry

Click on the above link to read this free-access article.

“New Mexico as a National Nuclear Sacrifice Zone”
by V. B. Price, Mercury Messenger
July 3, 2023

A brief cautionary history of how the Land of Enchantment evolved into a first-strike target in the event of a nuclear war (because of the state’s longstanding involvement in nuclear weapons manufacturing), as well as a “peacetime” dumping ground for hazardous nuclear waste.

Click on the above link to read this free-access analysis.

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Diana Tittle
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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