According to traffic statistics, Gallup has an extremely high rate of car/truck crashes.  The New Mexico Department of Transportation looked at all of the crashes in the Gallup area — driving, walking, biking, etc. The area around the Interstate 40/U.S. 491 interchange emerges as a top priority. According to an accompanying report, the interchange area has almost 15 percent of the crashes that occur in the Gallup area “making the facility unsafe and unreliable.”

The report indicates that a crash occurs approximately every three days in the interchange area. Over the last five years there have been over 200 rear-end, 121 side-swipe and 97 head-on accidents.

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Calls to cancel registration of flea, tick collar

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal legal petition April 8 at https://bit.ly/3dcSwq5, urging the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel the registration of the Seresto flea and tick collar which has been linked to the deaths of nearly 1,700 pets.

The EPA has received more than 75,000 complaints linking the flea collar to harms ranging from skin irritation to the death of pets. But the agency has taken no action to investigate the reports, recall the product, or issue a nationwide warning to the public of its potential dangers.

The EPA has defended its track record on the Seresto collar by claiming that the reports...

A Santa Fe company is looking to nature for solutions to crumbling roads and uranium mines that were abandoned without proper capping.

Bob Sherwin, CEO of Lithified Technologies, developed accelerated lithification technology, or LithTec, to mimic the process by which soil turns into stone over thousands of years. LithTec can be used to build roads that last longer and cost much less to build and maintain than roads built with traditional methods, Sherwin said. The same technology, he said, can solve serious problems associated with poorly sealed uranium mines.

It took seven years of research and development for Sherwin’s company to develop a dry blend of naturally occurring...

The strongest economy is one that works for everyone; one where workers earn livable wages and can provide for their families. We can build an economy that works for everyone and recover from the recession — but only if we learn from the mistakes of the past.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, New Mexico was beginning to move forward on a path to more broadly shared prosperity. We began on this path in 2019, when we finally started making long-needed investments in quality public education, affordable child care for working parents, smart economic development, and mental health services — all programs and services that help families and communities build a brighter future. The state...