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Delicious Golden Apples
If your employer didn’t buy a table at the Golden Apple awards luncheon, then you missed out. Not only on a free lunch, but on a lovely presentation of excellent... Read more »
Is the purposes of nuclear deterrence really to reassure ourselves?
Is the purpose of our nuclear arsenal really to deter our hypothetical enemies, or reassure ourselves? Jeffrey Lewis, of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies: I once sat in... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: March madness
No, not basketball. I’m talking about spring-season Legislature. I’m stuck in a big round building in Santa Fe observing MLA, or Mixed Legislative Arts. This is the annual, few-holds-barred cage... Read more »
APS board swearing in and officer election (with Breaking Bad reference!)
I assume that everyone who reads my blog follows me on Twitter at @HaileyHeinz. And if so, you know that I live-tweeted last night’s school board meeting with information about... Read more »
Updated: Dems speak out against city clerk
Two city councilors, a mayoral candidate and a former lieutenant governor — all Democrats — met with reporters this morning to slam City Clerk Amy Bailey’s handling of the special-election... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: Snowball chances
It’s gotten to that impenetrable time. Grit in your eyes. Hard to figure out what’s going on. Ten days left in the New Mexico legislative session. We’re seeing more close... Read more »
History of Sandia Labs: March 13 talk in Los Alamos
The terrifically interesting Rebecca Ullrich (a nuclear historian who’s helped me with stories in the past) will be speaking next Wednesday (March 13) in Los Alamos: From Z Division to... Read more »
City, Malt Shop argue in court
State District Judge Denise Barela-Shepherd has ordered the Route 66 Malt Shop and its managers to avoid speaking to their employees about litigation over Albuquerque’s new minimum wage. She also... Read more »
DOE proposes sending Hanford waste to New Mexico
The Department of Energy is proposing sending waste from radioactive waste tanks in Hanford, Wash., to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeast New Mexico. The proposal could send as... Read more »
March New Mexico runoff forecast: no break in the drought
If there is good news in the March New Mexico river runoff forecast, it is that things haven’t gotten any worse. Preliminary numbers sent around to water managers today by... Read more »
Breaking: ABQ clerk says ballots signed after the fact can’t be counted
About 4,300 people have returned ballots to the clerk's office without signing the oath on the envelope.
A nice summary of the Texas v. New Mexico water lawsuit
Laura Paskus, who writes for the Utton Center at the UNM law school, has written a nice summary (pdf) of the issues at stake in the lawsuit filed last month... Read more »
