In New Mexico, due to the many nuclear sites, at any give time there are several new and ongoing threats to our communities, our public health, and our Mother Earth. Currently, the various federal and state agencies and respective contractors are planning to expand activities while there is still much to clean up at each...More nuclear threats to New Mexico and uranium mine cleanup
In New Mexico, due to the many nuclear sites, at any give time there are several new and ongoing threats to our communities, our public health, and our Mother Earth. Currently, the various federal and state agencies and respective contractors are planning to expand activities while there is still much to clean up at each...Census: Poverty was on the decline in pre-pandemic New Mexico
2019 Census data show increased median income, but racial inequities persistALBUQUERQUE—Data released Sept. 17 by the U.S. Census Bureau show a significant improvement in the poverty rate in New Mexico between 2018 and 2019. That tracks with an increase in the median income during that timeframe. However, the data show little progress for children younger than five, and inequities continue to persist along racial and ethnic lines. The data released Sept. 17 – which are from 2019 – show that the poverty rate for all children ages 0 to 17 decreased from 26.3 percent in 2018 to 24.9 percent in 2019.
“While it’s always great to see improvement, we know that the COVID-19...
Drop boxes: essential for safe voting
If you told me a global health crisis fueled by ill-advised political leadership would hold American citizens hostage and infringe on basic voting rights a year ago, I wouldn’t have believed you.Sadly, that is the situation we find ourselves in today.
While that is a truth we Americans must accept, what we don’t have to accept is citizen inaction. We can make the best of a bad situation and secure the one aspect that we actually have control over: our vote.
The current administration is threatening to remove letter collection boxes, impose budget cuts to the U.S. Postal Service, and derail vote-in mailing systems as we approach the November election. Unfortunately for them, we...
Udall, Heinrich tell U. S. Postmaster to reverse changes, answer questions
WASHINGTON,D. C.—U.S. Senators Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., joined a group of 25 senators in a letter to U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, pressing him about recent changes to the U.S. Postal Service that caused delivery delays and increased costs for small businesses already struggling with lost revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic.
USPS is the “carrier of choice” for many small businesses that have fewer than 10 employees, which are among the most vulnerable small businesses. Over 70 percent of these vulnerable businesses regularly rely on the Postal Service. The majority of those use the service more frequently than other carriers. In the four...
Where does Habitat Stamp program go?
Well guess it is time for another letter and a change in the subject topic, my family and friends have been hunting for years since I was a teenager in high school. I can remember my dad taking us out of school for two weeks to go hunting. In those days, the two-week license covered most all animals from deer, turkey, and bear, you might run across.
As time has gone by the State of New Mexico and its Game and Fish department has increased the rules and made it harder to draw out for a license and tacked on many extra fees which has increased the cost of buying a license. I and my better half even taught hunter education for almost 12 years to encourage the young people to get into...
As time has gone by the State of New Mexico and its Game and Fish department has increased the rules and made it harder to draw out for a license and tacked on many extra fees which has increased the cost of buying a license. I and my better half even taught hunter education for almost 12 years to encourage the young people to get into...
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