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Columns

  • Straight from the City: Working together to heal the Gallinas River

    What if I told you that there was a water storage and treatment system up in the Gallinas canyon? What if I told you it uses green technology to purify our water with zero consumption of fossil fuels?

    Such a treatment plant does exist. It’s called a healthy, natural river and its floodplain.

    All you have to do to recognize the treatment plant is to change your mental focus a little.

    Riffles in the stream? They’re aerators.

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  • Dispatch New Mexico - Stories in small town newspapers say a lot

    Every weekend, I (or a proxy, if I want the weekend off) go through well over a dozen New Mexico newspapers and their websites in search of compelling stories to send out to subscribers of the Community News Exchange. This weekly column is part of this weekly news-sharing service.

    Sometimes I’m inspired to write this column about one of the stories I read; other times I’ve got something else on my mind. This week, I’ve been inspired by three local stories in particular:

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  • Another Perspective: Solutions and interventions

    By Arthur Ray Gallegos

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  • Just a Thought: Big lessons may be learned from little critters

    By Rick Kraft

    You are sitting outside relaxing and minding your own business when all of a sudden you feel something on your neck.

    You quickly slap at it thinking a fly landed on you and low and behold, when you pull your hand away, you find you have an ant crawling up the back of your neck.

    One thing about ants is that you don’t usually encounter just one. You look at the ground and find a stream of ants marching by you. You jump up and move away yielding your turf to the little critters.

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  • Another Perspective: Political parties bash rather than help one another

    By Steve Fischmann

    The election is over, and odds are you’ve figured out that our political parties have been far more concerned with bashing one another than taking care of us.

    Big corporate and financial interests have been funding the battle, and lawmakers have returned the favor by enacting policies that make fat-cat donors fatter. Meanwhile, most of us watch our long-term economic prospects fade. New Mexico poverty is up; growth is down and we suffer the greatest income inequality in the country.

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  • Dispatch New Mexico - A blue state in a sea of red

    The state of our state just shifted with the last election, more so than most of the other states that felt the punch of a Donald Trump insurgency. Here in New Mexico, we’ll be feeling it politically, economically — and culturally.

    Whether it’s for better or worse, we’ll soon see.

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  • Work of Art: Skype calls are complicated

    Many people my age are thankful for there being younger people around to figure out things that often baffle us oldsters. Case in point: We received a text message from our former foreign exchange students, Phaedra Wouters and Ana Granado, asking us to join them for a conference chat at 8 Sunday morning. This call differs from so many other kinds of calls we send and receive. We panicked, as the idea of being able to see the callers is a bit of a novelty.

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  • Another Perspective: Is city water enhancement program dying?

    By Bob Wessely

    Numerous questions about Las Vegas’ Water Enhancement Program have been raised at City Council meetings and elsewhere over the past six months. Clear answers have not been forthcoming. We hope the problem is simply poor communication vehicles, not that unpleasant facts are being deliberately hidden.

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  • Beth Speaks for Herself - Home is where …

    By Beth Urech

    Last year I began my Christmas column with “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” I added that here I can see the stars from my back porch. All I have to do is look up.

    Since then we have moved from Ninth to Seventh Street. I can still see the stars, and now it’s from my very own front porch. The first porch I have ever owned — attached to a sweet little bungalow, of course.

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  • Another Perspective: A community in crisis

    By Arthur Ray Gallegos

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