Publishing woes

Matthew Ellis supports a program called MARIA—Minds and Resources in Action, energy philosopher Miro Kovacevich’s plan to bring $21 billion in government funds to New Mexico’s labs to kick-start the renewable energy economy. Ellis and Kovacevich make up Vivilux Institution and host the new radio show, Venus Transit Authority.

Monkey wrenching, digital television and digital revolutions.

An attorney for Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. and his father, Jerome Block Sr., says the duo probably won’t turn up in First Judicial District Court for their May 11 arraignments.

As the program finally becomes a reality, the Great New Mexico Marijuana Experiment reignites a debate about pot use and drug culture that has raged for decades.

“Having that conversation out there in the open, having the issue discussed on FOX, on CNN, is shedding a light on the destruction of the Drug War in the United States,” Julie Roberts, policy coordinator with Drug Policy Alliance New Mexico, says. “It really crosses class lines, racial lines, gender lines and is impacting a huge proportion of Americans. I think that having these dialogues will hopefully change public perceptions in the months and years to come.”

The evidence of FEMA’s negligence in housing Katrina victims comes from Patrick Edward Preston, who now works as a staff attorney in the New Mexico Taxation & Revenue Department.

Pacing the peso.

Over the next few days, TV viewers in certain, perhaps more conservative parts of the state, will see an uptick in political ads from "Repeal the Repeal," a political action committee backed by Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White to undo the legislature's repeal of the death penalty.

Gary King campaigned in 2008 on stricter enforcement of open government laws, which fall under the AG’s domain. He's kept that promise...mostly.

Threatening letters, tax dodging and public transportation