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Record low snowpack foretells troubling spring, summer
From Our Land (NM In Focus). Drone footage shot by Anthony RodriguezSandia Peak on Jan. 31. On the last day of January, Kerry Jones points to signs near the Crest Trail in the Sandia Mountains. Nailed...
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In defense Sen. Candelaria, a true leader
COMMENTARY: Three years ago, Sen. Jacob Candelaria took heat from party hard-liners when he voted against the Health Insurance Exchange. His decision was arrived at not by slogans or emotion, but...
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Congress should not trade one injustice for another
Heather WilsonA view of a newly completed upgrade, funded during Barack Obama’s presidency, to the border fence in the Anapra neighborhood in Sunland Park, N.M. Faith leaders from around the country...
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NM’s child poverty traces back to federal land-takings, spotted owl
COMMENTARY: The number of people living in extreme poverty in the world has been markedly reduced in the last couple of decades. This wonderful result has arisen, in large part, from unleashing the...
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NM’s next governor must lead on climate
COMMENTARY: When our new governor takes office next January, he or she must be prepared to address climate change: the most pressing environmental problem of our time. Climate change threatens all life...
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NM’s economic and jobs opportunity by cutting methane emissions
COMMENTARY: The oil and gas industry is the largest industrial source of methane emissions in the United States. And depending on the price of natural gas on any given day, it is estimated that the...
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The desert, divided
Heather WilsonA view of a newly completed upgrade, funded during Barack Obama’s presidency, to the border fence in the Anapra neighborhood in Sunland Park, N.M. Faith leaders from around the country...
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Gubernatorial candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham on the environment
Courtesy photoMichelle Lujan Grisham NMPolitics.net is publishing a series of interviews with New Mexico’s four gubernatorial candidates that were conducted by New Mexico Political Report. The...
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Gubernatorial candidate Steve Pearce on the environment
Courtesy photoSteve Pearce NMPolitics.net is publishing a series of interviews with New Mexico’s four gubernatorial candidates that were conducted by New Mexico Political Report. The candidates...
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That nod of honor
COMMENTARY: Every summer is fire season in the New Mexico Mountains. While some fire seasons are worse than others, they are all bad. This year many wild fires have already started. Hundreds of...
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What Big Wind doesn’t want New Mexico to know
COMMENTARY: Earlier this month, the Washington, D.C.-based American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) came to Santa Fe to release its national “market” report for 2017. The slick marketing materials the...
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With lawsuit pending, Texas watches NM’s groundwater management
Laura Paskus / New Mexico Political ReportThe Rio Grande is currently dry for about 17 miles south of Socorro. As drying in the Middle Rio Grande spreads, and a lawsuit over the river’s waters moves...
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A dry Rio Grande in springtime isn’t normal. But it will be.
Laura Paskus / New Mexico Political ReportDead fish in the Rio Grande near San Antonio. COMMENTARY: I smell the mounds of dead fish before seeing them. By now, the fish are desiccated. Most lie in low...
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Pearce’s double talk on solar energy holds NM down
COMMENTARY: As someone who cares about our state’s well-being and future, I support responsible efforts to develop our state’s renewable energy sector. Some days, it seems our future is literally...
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Cooperation is the only answer to NM’s water woes
Laura Paskus / New Mexico Political ReportThe Rio Grande is currently dry for about 17 miles south of Socorro. COMMENTARY: The snow didn’t come this winter. The Rio Grande is drying up early. We’re...
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Most land commissioner candidates decline to make their case
Heath Haussamen / NMPolitics.netA statue outside the Roundhouse in Santa Fe. When Searchlight New Mexico sent a questionnaire to the state’s gubernatorial candidates, we received lengthy and thoughtful...
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NM back under water storage restrictions on the Rio Grande
Laura Paskus / New Mexico Political ReportAbiquiu Lake on the Chama River, a tributary of the Rio Grande. Despite the rains that doused parts of New Mexico on Monday, the state officially entered into...
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Strategic Water Reserve: a tool for these dry times
COMMENTARY: This spring, every part of New Mexico is suffering from drought, much of it extreme. Over 120 miles of the Rio Grande are projected to dry before the summer ends, leaving fish populations...
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Oil and gas, environmentalists square off over next governor
Heath Haussamen / NMPolitics.netA statue outside the Roundhouse in Santa Fe. Take a look at most oil and gas infrastructure — wellheads, pipes and cylindrical storage tanks — dotting New Mexico oil and...
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In the Southwest, ‘drought’ doesn’t tell the whole story
USFSThe 416 Fire near Durango, Colorado, ignited on June 1. By June 21, the wildfire covered more than 34,000 acres and was 37 percent contained. In early June, more than 1,000 people near Durango,...
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