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What's The Word with Peter St. Cyr: Chavez criticized for "last day" speed limit increase

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:27:00 -0500

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Former Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez is being criticized for another last minute decision -- to increase the speed limit for motorists commuting on a small portion of Montano that runs through Los Ranchos de Albuquerque.

Daily commuters are probably [...]

The Westerner: A tribal attempt to protect Mount Taylor sparks a battle over ancient claims to the land

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:07:00 -0500

From the top of Mount Taylor, mountains, valleys and mesas unfold into the hazy blue distance; on clear days, you can see all the way to Arizona. The Navajo call the 11,301-foot-tall peak Tsoodzil, and say it marks one of the four directional boundaries of their spiritual world. The Acoma, [...]

New Mexico Independent: Governor’s office: 59 political appointees to lose jobs

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:06:00 -0500

Nearly 60 of Gov. Bill Richardson’s political appointees will lose their jobs next month, the governor’s office announced today.

Supervisors notified 59 exempt, or appointed, state employees that their positions are being eliminated, effective Jan. 8, in an effort to save about $8.3 million dollars and help balance the state [...]

The Westerner: Cap-And-Trade Loss A Stunner In Aussie Vote

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:25:00 -0500

Cap-and-trade in Australia — which just a week ago was declared a certainty — is officially dead. This is the first major climate change turnaround anywhere in the Western world, with significant implications for our domestic debate. Combined with the Climate-gate e-mails revealing the data suppression and deceit underpinning "scientific" [...]

The Westerner: Court rejects lawsuit over polar bears

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:24:00 -0500

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled against an environmental group that had sued the federal government for allowing oil industry activities to occur in areas that polar bears also use. The bears are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The appeals court upheld a [...]

The Westerner: Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:17:00 -0500

Montana’s wildlife agency has given preliminary approval to a plan calling for 74 bison from Yellowstone National Park to go to billionaire Ted Turner’s private ranch. Officials hope to eventually use the bison to establish new herds on public lands. But conservationists see the move as privatizing Montana wildlife. The [...]

The Westerner: Ag Groups Call for Death to NAIS

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:14:00 -0500

One cannot help but wonder if the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has bitten off more than it can chew when it comes to tracking animals. Five years and $147 million after USDA opted to implement an animal tracking system based on the Australian model, it's far from a done [...]

The Westerner: Book Chronicles Life of West Texas Rancher Turned Outlaw on the Run

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:11:00 -0500

In the dying days of the Old West, the true-life story of West Texas rancher Noah Wilkerson earned a small, but captivating, place in the era’s history. In the new book, Guilty…But Not As Charged, Wilkerson’s life became a case of Old West justice when he went from family man [...]

New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan: Blame It On Jay: Low Leno Ratings Hit Local News, Plus: Reporting the Econ Story; Who's On Top? Also: Axe Falls On Politicals & The Quote Of The Day

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:33:00 -0500

Don't blame it all on Jay Leno, but the sacking Wednesday of KOB-TV news director Jamie Loos comes only days after the November ratings hit the streets showing the NBC affiliate's flagship 10 p.m. newscast skidding into third place. November was Leno's first full' [...]

New Mexico FBIHOP: Fleck weighs in on "climategate"

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:18:52 -0500

Albuquerque Journal science writer John Fleck, it's no secret he's one of my favorite journalists to read, weighed in on the "climategate" e-mails that global warming deniers are claiming is the end of global warming. Seriously.

Go read it.
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