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The Westerner: Obama to join climate summit on its final day

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:42:00 -0500

Increasingly optimistic that decisions by China and India will yield a breakthrough in international climate negotiations, President Obama announced Friday that he would take a more active and dramatically timed role at this month's climate summit in Copenhagen. Obama will push back his visit to the conference to its final [...]

Cocoposts: Monsters of Perugia

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:21:17 -0500

There is always more to the story. There is more to the story about the conviction of Amanda Knox for murder. Sadly, it spotlights my beloved Perugia and the profound weirdness of the Italian judicial system. Reader comments in the... [...]

Diogenes'six: Where is the oversight?

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:09:00 -0500

I posed a question recently, what if this comment that was
left on the back side of the Eye on Albuquerque, link, was genuine?
I love being a cop but I find it harder and harder to work for a police department where the so called leadership has no [...]

New Mexico FBIHOP: Health care companies working extremist angles against health care reform

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:45:45 -0500

Wow.

Think Progress reports that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association executive director of state services Joan Gardner was on a group that helped craft the legislation being introduced in states around the country.

This is what those hoping to reform the health care industry are facing -- pressure from [...]

The Westerner: Safeway recalls beef in Arizona, N.M.

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:54:00 -0500

In cooperation with Beef Packers, Inc.'s (Cargill) recall of 22,000 pounds of fresh ground beef that may be linked to an outbreak of Salmonella, Safeway Inc. is recalling fresh ground beef products with "Sell By" dates of September 28 through October 11, 2009. The recall affects all stores in Arizona [...]

Diogenes'six: UNM Graduate and Professional Student Association votes for inquiry

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:45:00 -0500

The most important resolution just passed the the GPSA @ UNM Council, link, meeting today, was to call for an independent investigation of Locksley Gate. They also voted for a confidence vote both for Paul Krebs' handling of Locksley Gate, and on his leadership of the UNM Athletics Department' [...]

Democracy for New Mexico: 12/15: Brian Colón for Lt. Gov. Fundraiser & Toys for Tots Drive at Casa Esencia in Albuquerque

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:11:00 -0500

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From Brian Colón for Lt. Governor:

The holiday season is right around the corner. What a great time to spend with our friends and family. I hope you'll join me on Tuesday, December 15th, for a fundraiser and Toys for' [...]

Errors of Enchantment: TSA Stole my Hot Sauce!

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:22:19 -0500

We at the Rio Grande Foundation typically go after the idiocy and corruption of our state political leaders, but the TSA is one entity that we all deal with on a regular basis, but that I have not written about extensively. This is largely because there seems to be no [...]

Errors of Enchantment: Deficit Neutral Health Plan Impossible

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:22:10 -0500

While Democrats in Congress work overtime to make their health care reforms appear to be "deficit neutral," University of New Mexico economist Micha Gisser cuts through the disinformation and explains exactly why the plans for a government takeover of America's health care is simply not possible without dramatically increasing the [...]