Epa Looks Into American Cement Permit The Environmental Protection Agency is concerned about the federal enforceability of a permit issued to a cement transfer station in the North Valley, [...] Marisa Demarco \ Dec 10, 2009 Read More The storage silos at American Cement’s transfer station sit in a North Valley neighborhood. (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Local Environmentalist Attends Copenhagen Summit Journalists are calling it the most important environmental summit to date. In Copenhagen, Denmark, thousands of dignitaries and officials, green crusaders, and the [...] Marisa Demarco \ Dec 10, 2009 Read More Mark Giorgetti speaks in support of the Senate Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act at a press conference in Albuquerque on Oct. 1. (Courtesy of Staci Stevens)
The Old Jail: Is Albuquerque’s Winter Haven For The Homeless Up To Code? Is Albuquerque’s Winter Haven For The Homeless Up To Code? The western slope of the Petroglyphs falls dark early, except for an aisle of towering floodlights in front of a lone building. Men [...] Graeme Prentice-Mott \ Dec 03, 2009 Read More (Eric Williams ericwphoto.com)
Miss Diagnosis: H1N1 And Other Diseases Of Civilization One of the greatest tragedies of my life is that the crabby robot dude in The Matrix compared human beings to viruses before [...] Whitny Doyle R.N. \ Dec 03, 2009 Read More
Odds & Ends & Weird News: 50 Ft German Editorial Phallus, Canadians Kick A Red Head Odds & Ends & Weird News: 50 Ft German Editorial Phallus, Canadians Kick A Red Head Dateline: Germany— The long-standing editorial feud between two newspapers came to a head (so to speak) recently when German newspaper Die Tageszeitung unveiled [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 03, 2009 Read More
Thin Line: What’s Up Lady Justice’s Skirts? This week’s theme is: Stuff You Should Know. Don’t let Lady Justice keep her secrets. It’s called the “blue wall of silence.” Ex-officer [...] Marisa Demarco \ Dec 03, 2009 Read More
Letters: Doctors-Turned-Politicians, Bill O’reilly Doesn’t Hate Doctors-Turned-Politicians What shocked me most reading Christie Chisholm’s report on health care in rural Kenya [Re: News, “Aid From Afar,” Nov. 26-Dec. 2] is [...] Alibi \ Dec 03, 2009 Read More
Odds & Ends Odds & Ends Dateline: Russia— The U.K.’s Daily Mail reports that a Russian judge handed a more lenient sentence to a cannibal who killed and ate [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 26, 2009 Read More
Miss Diagnosis Says Act Stat Or Die On Health Care Reform Before we begin, allow me to introduce myself: I’m a registered nurse and a family nurse practitioner graduate student. My background includes newborn, [...] Whitny Doyle R.N. \ Nov 26, 2009 Read More
Local Docs Travel To Kenya To Help Children And Mothers In the village of Kisesini, which sits southeast of Nairobi in Kenya’s Yatta District, water is scarce and brackish and food mostly comes [...] Christie Chisholm \ Nov 26, 2009 Read More Mothers with their children wait for the arrival of the Global Health Partnerships team of volunteers who will assess the nutritional status of the children. (Courtesey of Global Health Partnerships)