Today's intelligence: Cracks in Virgin Galactic's operations exposed by investor lawsuits raise questions about the likelihood of the company's meeting its promise to begin long-delayed commerccial passenger flights later this year.
Today's intelligence: An agreement between Colorado, New Mexico and Texas has been reached that would amend the 83-year old legal basis for how the three states split water under the Rio Grande Compact.
Today's intelligence: new tax credit for energy-efficient home retrofits; suspect linked to drive-by shootings of elected officials in Albuquerque in custody; Virgin Orbit's first launch in U.K. a failure
Today's intelligence: an argument for timely state investment in our Strategic Water Fund and a recent trend of shootings at the Albuquerque offices or homes of Democratic elected officials
Today's intelligence: Is seawater desalination a feasible solution to the Southwest's water crisis? Watch what is happening in Arizona.
Today's intelligence: A resolution has finally been reached between New Mexico and Texas over water unlawfully released from Elephant Butte Reservoir more than ten years ago.
Today's intelligence: high-speed rail proposed for New Mexico; wildfire recovery monies go undistributed in southern New Mexico; and Sierra County ranks poorly in life expectancy rates.
The Constitution created a government around the arguments about democracy, but it did not resolve those conflicts. The resulting ambiguity allowed traditional hierarchical, undemocratic structures, institutions, and values to inform American life. Those hierarchical ideas still dominate American social thinking today resulting in a complex and often self-contradictory identity.
In the hearing on the application to transfer water rights to wells in Caballo for use at Copper Flat Mine, the hearing examiner has decided that Percha-Animas Water Association has standing to appear as a protestant against the granting of the application.
Water conservation has been a legal requirement in New Mexico for several decades, but until now, the courts have never discussed or defined the requirement. Yesterday, the Appeals Court gave substance to law by affirming a lower court decision based on conservation principles.
Today's must-read reporting: a preview of a new documentary about domestic animal neglect; New Mexico gets a tourism boost from Lonely Planet; and Las Cruces-Albuquerque flights to debut in January.
I am introducing a series of articles in which I view and weigh our present world in light of the concept of entropy, and in this first essay, I explain what entropy is and how it allows us to see the effects of everything that we do.
