A couple of days ago, the Supreme Court approved the Special Master’s Fourth Interim Report on the case known as “No. 141 Original Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado.”
In go(l)d we trust: a look at negative gearing, what it is, and how it can finance mining projects in Sierra County.
We are depleting the Rio Grande Basin faster and faster every year, the groundwater 15 times faster than the river waters, reports the first comprehensive study of consumption in the whole Rio Grande/Bravo Basin system.
In this Afterword I lay out the racial, ethnic, religious and gender groups with which Justice Alito and his fellow Justices identify, and I show how they enact those identities with their decision in "Louisiana v. Callais." I apologize for the length.
This is the last part of my essay on the Supreme Court's decision to forbid states to remap voting districts on the basis of race but allows states to gerrymander for political reasons. The result will be the return of hidden racism.
I republish here (a bit late) an article by Danielle Prokop from Source NM, which is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. Danielle Prokop reports on climate crisis on the Rio Grande, water litigation and health impacts from pollution.
This is the third part of my analysis of Supreme Court Alito's Louisiana v. Callais ruling. In it I discuss the mostly unacknowledged undertow that pulls his argument together and the way those currents come out of the Court's decades-long destruction of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The second part of my long read of Justice Alito's decision in Louisiana v. Callais is a direct analysis of his argument with attention to his use of two ambiguous words, "discrimination" and "intention," and his construction of a history of cases that lead to his decision.
I begin a four articles long study of the Supreme Court decision on elections in Louisiana v. Callais. The articles are difficult with a lot of information, legal concepts, and linguistic analysis. I hope you will tackle it because voting may not be voting anymore.
I link to an article by two very long-term observers of water in New Mexico. They are factual, detailed, informed, careful, persistent, intelligent, public-minded people not motivated by private interests, money, power, or any ideology except public service. You need to hear what they say about your water.
There’s still something left to be said about Alex Pretti. Saying it says what we already know, but we need to say it, because words -- misdirected, rhetorical, dishonest, sugar-coated, hiding threats, pretending to be other than what they say – are part of the problem today.
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