Lest readers of this blog think my only journalistic avocation is climate: LANL May Begin Building Nuke Pits By John Fleck And Michael Coleman Journal Staff Writers WASHINGTON— Federal officials on Monday proposed expanding nuclear weapons manufacturing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, part of a sweeping plan to develop new nuclear weapons for the first …
In which my buddy Steve gets a blog.
On Bob Civiak’s report on the Reliable Replacement Warhead.
Reminded by Coco’s trenchant observations on the politics of impact fees, I’ve a question: of all those new home permits being issued in the metro area, what proportion is in multi-home developments, and what proportion is in single-lot infill around the city’s fringes? My anecdotes tell me infill is going gangbusters right now, but I …
More evidence that Steve Lawrence is wrong: dinner at Los Equipales, on Jefferson a block south of Central. Yum. Thanks for the tip, J_M.
Avelino Maestas blogs live from Silver City. Some peak oil there, plus, more importantly, “peak water.”
Congratulations to Albuquerque distance runner Brandon Leslie, who scored a fourth place finish Sunday at the U.S. half marathon championship.
As I’ve mentioned before, the coolest aspect of my job is having carte blanche to call up smart people and make them explain stuff too me. Today’s case in point is Paul Polechla, the University of New Mexico’s aquatic mammals expert. When I saw what I thought might be a beaver dam a couple of …
Coco explains why Corrales et al. weren’t really suburbs of Albuquerque back in 1750. Suburban-style development grew around existing villages after the first and second world wars as agriculture declined and land was sold or lost to taxes.
My friend George, who commutes to work by bike very early in the morning, has seen beavers in the bosque a couple of times, at dawn on the west end of the Alameda Bridge where the Corrales drain empties into the river. I’ve never seen ’em, though I’ve seen gnawed tree trunks many times. But …