List/Grid Author Archives: John Fleck / Journal Staff Writer
A dry spring on the Colorado River
Today’s Colorado Basin River Forecast Center briefing, and some followup email conversation with forecaster Brenda Alcorn, yielded some truly remarkable numbers: forecast April-July inflow into Lake Powell, which is the... Read more »
Water forecast: ‘Worst year ever’
An abysmal March, on top of an abysmal snowpack season, on top of an abysmal 2011 and 2012, means 20 ...
Tibbetts, the next generation, to speak in Los Alamos
Air Force Col. Paul Tibbets IV (yes, the grandson of that Paut Tibbets) is giving a talk next week in Los Alamos: Col. Paul Tibbets IV, grandson of Enola Gay... Read more »
Drought on the Rio Grande: “The worst year ever.”
With the preliminary April 1 runoff forecast numbers in hand, this is “the worst year ever” on the Rio Grande, according to Phil King, New Mexico State University professor and... Read more »
On intelligence reports and that popular UFO memo
My colleague Bruce Daniels had some fun last week with the fact that a 1950 Roswell UFO memo is the most read item in the FBI’s web collection. But what... Read more »
Water battle persists in southern New Mexico
Carlsbad Irrigation District wants upstream users blocked
Carlsbad farmers move to shut down upstream neighbors’ water
CARLSBAD – The leaders of the Carlsbad Irrigation District voted this afternoon to demand the state of New Mexico shut off groundwater users upstream in the Roswell and Artesia areas... Read more »
Drought watch = fire watch
With drought comes increased risk of fire. My colleagues Pat Lohmann, Rene Romo and Jim Thompson collaborated on a helpful package in this morning’s paper, looking at where the fire... Read more »
The industry entanglements of Energy Secretary nominee Ernie Moniz
Bryan Bender at the Boston Globe has had a look at the financial disclosure statements filed by MIT prof/energy policy guy Ernest Moniz, the Obama administration’s nominee to be Secretary... Read more »
Feith et. al: US nuclear modernization key to nonproliferation
In an opinion piece in Friday’s Washington Post, former senior official in the second Bush Defense Department Douglas Feith and colleagues argue that preventing nuclear proliferation requires a strong nuclear... Read more »
Hey Lobo fans, don’t be so glum!
Today’s announcement that head University of New Mexico basketball coach Steve Alford is leaving for Westwood is a good opportunity to reprise my January 2012 column suggesting some possible benefits... Read more »
Water management lawsuit put on hold
Texas asks the Supreme Court to step in and help resolve the conflict
