My attempt at sketching in the background behind the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee’s proposed cuts in the U.S. nuclear weapons program: Nuclear weapons spending has long seemed an entitlement for New Mexico. With two of the nation’s three nuclear weapons laboratories located here, a big chunk of the U.S. nuclear weapons budget is …
on the evolution of the U.S. nuclear weapons budget – the latest bit of punctuated equilibrium
Christie Chisholm has a great overview in this week’s Alibi of the city of Albuquerque’s San Juan-Chama water project. What I liked is the way she captured the complexity of this project. No easy answers, no free lunch when it comes to New Mexico water: Even though the city wants to drastically cut pumping from …
Stuff I wrote elsewhere: Mosquitoes feasted Tuesday morning on dignitaries who gathered in the Rio Grande bosque to commemorate the release of the millionth Rio Grande silvery minnow. The minnow release was a celebration of efforts to save the fish from extinction. The mosquitoes were a reminder of an especially wet spring— nature cooperating with …
cactus flowers May 2007 Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Lissa’s picture of one of her front yard cactus. In the desert, when it rains, they’re happy. And this May, it has rained.
Last Sunday’s bike ride, and this is almost certainly invalid HTML, but if a map shows up, I’ve been victorious!
J.A. Montalbano has been doing a delightful series this week in the Albuquerque Tribune on his adventures of going a week without driving his car. Today is telecommuting. My favorite bit of business was from day two at the bus stop: I left the house at 11:25 a.m. and got to the Rapid Ride stop …
The hilarity over the Washington Post’s take on Albuquerque continues on today’s front page via my friend Jim Belshaw. As I mentioned earlier, I’ve not heard the stumbling of mountain lions, but I did hear a killdeer this morning on the way in to work.
From today’s Washington Post: At 9 a.m. on the very edge of the dusty, desolate collection of adobe homes and Vietnamese restaurants that seem to form this city, David Iglesias begins his run through the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. This is not easy terrain. The footing is terribly uneven. The altitude can be unbearable. …
Dirty Bike Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. In past years, I’ve suggested that celebrating my birthday by riding my age was a modest goal. Forty-eight miles yesterday (77 kilometers, not sure what it is in metric years) was tough. I could blame the weather, but I really don’t have a lot of miles in my legs …