Dear Friend, I hope you and your family are doing well and staying safe this week. As we wrap up another week in Washington, I have some important updates to share on the historic investments that I was proud to secure for New Mexico’s national labs. HISTORIC...
We Made It Easier to Volunteer with Community Services
By Phyllis Bustamante City Parks. The Food Depot. Kitchen Angels. Santa Fe Animal Shelter. Reunity Resources. Habitat for Humanity. Santa Fe Indigenous Center. Want to volunteer? We’ve got a place for you. There’s a standardized Google Doc for you to use. Or, email us...
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Mardi Gras
Fat Tuesday has come and gone but the memories are here for a long time. This year’s Mardi Gras celebration served up great food, including untold pounds of Phyllis Bustamante's famous coleslaw and Julie Rodriguez’s chicken and sausage gumbo which was fantastically...
Broadband poised for takeoff
By Marti Burt Children’s education, business start-ups, health care delivery, farm-to-table agriculture -- what doesn’t suffer from the current state of high-speed internet coverage in New Mexico? Rural areas are especially affected, but even our biggest urban areas...
‘If you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do’
By Michael Kelley A Southern newspaper editorial writer, weighing in on the evils of the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, warned readers that "You might be a member of a labor union next year, if this thing is passed and signed." Horrors! A bigger paycheck,...
Zero impact as important as zero emissions
by Joe Neidhardt, MD Many realize that we need to get to zero emissions of nitrous oxide, methane, and CO2 if we are going to address the climate crisis. In addition, there is another zero we need to achieve;zero impact. Our western culture has been based on...
Hundreds in Santa Fe rally in support of reproductive freedom
Hundreds of people rallied to call for stronger protections for reproductive rights Saturday morning in front of the Roundhouse. The rally was organized by Women Warriors, a Texas-based activist group focused on fighting that state’s “heartbeat bill,” Senate Bill 8,...
Santa Fe mayor debates one rival as another backs out
Republican mayoral candidate Alexis Martinez Johnson backed out of a Tuesday evening forum hosted by the Democratic Party of Santa Fe County shortly before the event began. She refused to be a part of a “hyper-partisan debate,” she said in a statement. Martinez...