The chile capital’s long road back from Little Katrina
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In 2016 change is evident in Chile Capital of the World, though memories of the flood and loose ends from its fury linger on in the small town’s historical narrative. Continue Reading
As Rio Grande crisis deepens, study suggests management innovations
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The study builds on Dr. Luzma Fabiola Nava’s years of researching and probing the often-thorny management of the Rio Grande. Continue Reading
Report details failures of utility serving Sunland Park, Santa Teresa
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The assessment was a critical portrait of a public utility entrusted with delivering safe drinking water to an estimated 21,000 people and performing competent wastewater treatment and disposal services that impact the Rio Grande, which is shared by the U.S. and Mexico. Continue Reading
Border utility finds itself in hot water
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Recent revelations of high arsenic levels, Clean Water Act violations, and management troubles have all drawn the attention of Southern New Mexico elected officials as well as state and federal environmental regulators. Continue Reading
Trump’s train, Shadow Mountain and NAFTA’s deadly highway
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Long waits to cross the downtown Juárez train tracks are just one small part of many transportation bottlenecks currently gripping the Paso del Norte borderland as a new round of development and commercial expansion overtakes the region. Continue Reading
Bloody crackdown on Mexican teachers spurs crisis
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As of Tuesday, the teacher’s union listed between eight and 10 civilians killed, with scores injured and perhaps 22 disappeared. Government sources placed the death toll at eight or 10 and the number of detained at 23. Continue Reading
Political fallout from Trump’s Albuquerque rally continues
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The issue dominated a good portion of the June 6 session of the Albuquerque City Council. Continue Reading
Is Sunland Park the border’s Flint, Michigan?
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A recent test found arsenic levels that significantly exceed government standards in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa. Officials are working on improvements to arsenic treatment plants there. Continue Reading
It’s more than a bus: democracy, gentrification and urbanicide
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The battle over the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project has renewed debates on poverty, economic development, homelessness, generational differences, public spending priorities, the car culture, and other heady matters that will define 21st Century New Mexico’s identity. Continue Reading
Ciudad Juárez commercial district bounces back
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Millions of dollars are being invested in redevelopment and business is starting to pick up in an area that was ravaged by the great violence of 2008-2012. Continue Reading
Will the DOJ investigate the Arizona election?
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The demand for a DOJ investigation is picking up steam following last Tuesday’s debacle of ballot shortages and hours-long poll lines. Continue Reading
Border Lexmark workers keep up the fight
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For more than three months, Miriam Delgado and her friends have struggled to get their jobs back at Lexmark International, a U.S.-based company that manufactures printer cartridges at its large plant in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Continue Reading
The Battle of Route 66 is being fought in Albuquerque
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Albuquerque Rapid Transit proposes to turn nine miles of Central Avenue — west from Louisiana Boulevard near the Sandia foothills to Coors Boulevard past the Rio Grande — into a more pedestrian-friendly route complete with dedicated bus lanes, widened sidewalks, energy-efficient LED lighting, signalized crosswalks, and canopied bus stops where medians now stand. Continue Reading
Remembering the women of Albuquerque’s mass femicides
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Dr. Irene Blea is one person who hasn’t forgotten about the unsolved killings of 11 women and girls found murdered on Albuquerque’s West Mesa in February 2009. Continue Reading
Truth and justice remain elusive in Mexico’s Iguala/Ayotzinapa atrocity
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More than 17 months after the deadly attack on students and civilians in the Mexican city of Iguala, the truth behind the atrocity — and justice for the victims — seems more elusive than ever. Continue Reading