‹‹ Alibi V.29 No.36 • Sept 3-9, 2020
Census
The Fight for Numbers
New Mexico’s Census efforts are still fighting hard amid some big blows
It is estimated in the last census the undercount for tribal communities was around 5 percent. That may not seem like a huge number, but when you start to figure in statistics like an estimated 39 percent growth in population and compound those numbers with data like every person counted currently accounts for $5,000 in federal funding per year, it adds up.
Clarke Condé
New Mexico News
Oñate’s Henchmen In My Blood
Bringing it all together
Guess you never know whose skeletons are lurking in your genealogy closet until they start to do some rattling around.
New Mexico News
Operation Legend Has Less Than Legendary Results
Locals underwhelmed by progress of federal program
Was Operation Legend part of a much larger scale program from President Trump in an attempt to undermine citizens’ freedom and safety, or were these federal law enforcement officers genuinely here to help? BCSO releases numbers.
Nuclear Issues Study Group
Community News
Community Questions Nuclear Waste Storage Site
Company moves comment hearings online, despite opposition from Congress
Holtec International and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are required to hold in-person meetings to solicit public comment on the drafted Environmental Impact Statement for the spent nuclear fuel site (SNF) in southeast New Mexico. Five of those meetings were supposed to happen this year but the COVID-19 pandemic has made them impossible.
Newscity
Gov. Lujan Grisham relaxed the pandemic stay-at-home order; delegates who traveled to the Republican Party National Convention last week were ordered to self-quarantine; New Mexico voters can now request an absentee ballot for the general election online.
Odds & Ends
Funny because waking up in a funeral home happens to someone else.
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (8/27/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (8/20/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (8/13/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (8/6/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (7/30/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (7/23/2020)
