There’s been much curiosity in our household about this Festival of Illumination thing. How will we certify that Albuquerque really has lit up 3 million (5 million?) luminarias to convince those Guiness World Record sticklers? Some sort of Santa-borne spy satellite? The honor system? Isabel Sanchez has the goods (sub. req.) in this morning’s paper: …
Riding down New Mexico 313 through Sandia Pueblo this afternoon, I was reminded of how beautiful New Mexico is. I was riding with a woman who’d just moved here from Tucson (no slouch of a city in terms of its desert beauty), and she kept noticing things I took for granted – a trio of …
Monahan on crime stats
Via Rich Burridge, an interesting experiment: how many Taco Bells within 10 miles of you? With their store locator, I found just 15. Rich found 23 around his house, but a little searching found as many as 51 (Hollywood and Manhattan). 15? That’s pathetic. Albuquerque can do better. All we need to become a world …
In which I get to dabble in the great issues of the day (sub. req.), involving aluminum tubes and the like: Wilson said in an interview that analysts from Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratory were part of a team of Department of Energy nuclear experts who concluded that a key piece of evidence— high-strength …
Some nuke news in this morning’s paper (sub. req.). The state of New Mexico’s proposed WIPP permit modification is out. It goes along with a Department of Energy request to reduce waste testing requirements, and allows shipment of remote-handled waste (this is the stuff that is much more radioactive) to go forward.
A nice little bit of business this morning (sub. might be req.) by my colleague Toby Smith about Bill Richardson’s baseball career: Over time, draft status became part of Richardson’s political persona. His official campaign biography in 1982, when he first ran for Congress in New Mexico’s 3rd District, concludes: “In 1966, he was drafted …
On continued funding (sub. req.) for some nuclear weapons research programs that have not performed up to snuff: Members of Congress last week called for an independent investigation into a Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear weapons project that is 18 years behind schedule and more than $250 million over budget. But funding for the project …
I tried posting a comment last week over at Tim McGivern’s blog, but it seems to be caught up in some moderation queue either technological or human, so I thought I’d throw this up here instead. Tim took a shot at the Journal for its “feckless” coverage of the meth problem. My comment was that …
Johnny_Mango (historyblogger? – Chantal is right, let’s just dump the labels and go with “writer”) on the old Confederate encampment in the south valley bosque. The Ghosts of 1000 Texans Still Whisper in the Bosque. I’ve ridden past there a hundred times. Who knew?