Since last November, I’ve been spending odd bits of time here and there hanging out with a group of bright teenagers who do math competitions. They’re a wonderful bunch of kids, nurtured by a great group of adults. (Journal photographer Marla Brose has been working on this with me since the beginning, and her pictures …
Could one of you please make a blood donation? Thanks. Here’s the deal. I experienced a bit of a misadventure Wednesday morning when I went in to give blood. I’ve got difficult veins, and the phlebotomists just couldn’t get a good one Wednesday. After ten minutes of so of poking around, with very little blood …
From Norris Hundley’s account of the November 1922 meeting of the Colorado River Commission at Bishop’s Lodge: Herbert Hoover and his fellow Colorado River commissioners approached the Santa Fe conference on November 9 with a mixture of seriousness and optimism. The chances of success seemed unusually favorable. The public also sensed that an agreement was …
Added Live from Silver City to the Planet. (WC: Silver City’s down in the southern part of my state, a town of about 10,000 or so.)
I have a great frustration with traditional television news coverage of wildfires, because it generally leaves the impression of a chaotic, uncontrolled and unpredictable situation. Sometimes it is that way. But more often, the fire crews have a pretty clear idea of terrain, fuel load and weather. They know where the fire is now, and …
Schwartzman Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Richard Metcalf’s story in Thursday’s Journal spurred me to ride down past the old Schwartzman property this morning, down in Albuquerque’s South Valley. It’s 500 acres of land, much of it still farmed, dating back somewhere into Albuquerque’s distant past when farming was what we did. According to Richard’s story, …
Dr. Swamp Cooler today speaks bravely about the threat posed by immigrants to our way of life: The decision to issue Swamp Cooler Photo ID cards was made unavoidable due to the influx of migrants (California, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, etc.) who come to New Mexico with alien notions of air conditioning that have become a …
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Courtesy MN, who made the Flickr blog with this one.
Jim Scarantino is back, with a lovely essay on his old Kelty.
Dan McKay has a good story in today’s Journal answering questions that have been bubbling up about water quality once the city of Albuquerque starts taking its water from the Rio Grande. If you’ve got the paper copy of the paper, Cathryn Cunningham’s graphic is quite helpful as well.