Today's intelligence: New Mexico's tough new pollution rules rely on oil and gas operators to report and fix their methane emissions. How is self-policing working? Plus: a possible model for future suits against polluters and unexpected allies of tighter EPA regulations
Continuing my discussion of our turn towards individual points of view to the exclusion of larger concerns, I propose that in the last half century, American education has focused on student subjectivity pushing the culture towards individuation rather than cohesion.
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.
Some aspects of American society might make us more prone to what psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls fast thinking and thus more prone to make mistakes in judgment when it comes to complex issues like Covid.
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.
What do you see when you look out over a landscape? When you gaze or glance at somebody? Do you glance or do you really LOOK and wonder?
Today's intelligence: a year-end roundup of good news and stories of progress from around the world. 2022 wasn't a total disaster, ya'll.
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.
Some limits on our ability to think when we want to think about Covid.
Today's must-read reporting: the dimensions of the humanitarian crisis brewing at the El Paso border crossing and the latest data about New Mexicans' unaddressed and growing alcohol consumption problem
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: A second attempt to create a special hospital taxing district for Sierra Vista Hospital is announced, and more details emerge about Truth or Consequences's handling of the animal cruelty complaint against T or C Mayor Amanda Forrister and her husband Lane.
There are times when a pause in our daily routines can be most beneficial. A time to reflect on our actions and the effects they have on the world we live in
