Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere, Dry Rio Grande Edition
Slippin’ in some John Wesley Powell over at the work blog when the boss isn’t lookin’.
Archive of posts filed under the New Mexico category.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere, NM Drought Edition
80 percent of NM now in abnormally dry condition.
Colorado River Dry
More when I have time, but for now, since this is a blog and we’re supposed to be on top of things, some stuff I wrote elsewhere: The Colorado River will be too small to meet the needs of its users three years out of five, or more, by mid-century, according to new research. Some …
Getting Buy-in
From today’s newspaper, a look at Jeff Bingaman’s approach to climate legislation: [A]s we sat down for lunch last week to talk climate and energy policy, the first thing out of Bingaman’s mouth was an explanation of “the Byrd rule.” The topic helps illustrate the delicate way Bingaman prefers to play the legislative game. The …
Trickster in the Front Yard
Jim Belshaw’s new book, a collection of his finest newspaper writing, is out:
Easter
My newspaper colleagues Marla Brose and Olivier Uyttebrouck did a lovely package over the weekend about a group of Franciscans here in Albuquerque celebrating Easter. Especially check out Marla’s slide show (story’s also linked from that page.)
Cochiti
IMG_0252 Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. That’s the Rio Grande you see there – the entire Rio Grande, as it leaves Cochiti Dam 40 river miles north of Albuquerque. It was flowing at about 1,000 cubic feet per second today when Lissa and I drove by during a Sunday wander. Cochiti, completed in the early 1970s, …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Chu’s Visit
A bunch of stuff over at the place where I get paid on Energy Secretary Steve Chu’s visit to New Mexico this week. The bottom line: nuclear weapons remain important, lots of other missions for the labs, happy talk, no specifics. the bottom line (start here if you want to just skip to the meat, …
What Happens When the River Runs Dry?
V.B. Price, in the Independent, has a must-read rumination on water constraints in middle Rio Grande planning: Is the notion of “reinventing cities” in the American West less about new rail and other transportation infrastructure than it is about finally being honest about water and doing something about it? But what could be done? Must …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Nuclear Drift
On our nation’s appalling* inability to make decisions about nuclear weapon policy: In 1989, the Department of Energy told Congress that the old building was contaminated, with widespread corrosion, and asked for money to build a replacement. A year later, Congress killed funding, saying the federal government needed to come up with an overarching plan …