Recovering addicts find roots in the soil of New Mexico
Articles
Posted inArticles
Slideshow: The waiting game
When Los Amigos del Parque was founded seven years go, about 20 immigrants waited for work every day near the New Mexico Department of Labor in Santa Fe. Now the human rights outreach group counts 60 or so immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala daily. As the economy weakens and construction lags, these laborers find more […]
Posted inArticles
Slideshow: The unflappable Doc Vincent
Please wait while the player loads. Note: you must have javascript enabled and the Adobe Flash Player installed.
Posted inArticles
Mayberry and Peyton Place
Given that the vast majority of Americans (almost four out of five) live in urban areas, we small town residents might well feel flattered by the attention we received during this presidential campaign. Not all the attention was complimentary, though. Democratic nominee Barack Obama observed that “You go into some of these small towns in […]
Posted inArticles
Audio: Researching Rexburg
Rexburg, Idaho, may be the most Mormon of any town in the nation. HCN Senior Editor Ray Ring spent time in Rexburg, getting to know the place, and trying to understand what happens when religion completely saturates a community. He wrote about it in his story, Prophets and Politics, in the Oct. 27 issue of […]
Posted inArticles
The fruits of their labor
A guard, a vineyard owner and prisoners talk about a new farm worker program
Posted inArticles
Video: Still howling wolf
The passionate and complicated feelings people have about living with wolves in the Northern Rockies
Posted inArticles
One species versus 1.8 million others
I’m a student of roadkill. I keep an informal tally of the carcasses I spot on the roadside – what kind, how many and where — and I note the splatters that accumulate on our car windshield. They’re an indication of the diversity and abundance of animal and insect lives along the unnatural transects we […]
Posted inArticles
Clean coal is an oxymoron
After Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer made a fiery speech at the Democratic Convention, some people suggested that he’d make a fine secretary of Energy, no matter who wins the election. But although Schweitzer, a Democrat, may give a good speech, his near-fanatic promotion of coal should give one pause. The West has long suffered the […]
Posted inArticles
Audio: A conversation with Alexandra Fuller
To listen to the audio interview you need to have the Adobe Flash Player installed and Javascript enabled. Alexandra Fuller, whose recent book The Legend of Colton H. Bryant is a portrait of a worker who died in Wyoming’s energy fields, talks about the connection between people and land; about why she left her native […]
Posted inArticles
Braving the political winds
EPA official Robbie Roberts took a stand against unbridled energy development
Posted inArticles
Roan on the auction block
BLM set to open Colorado plateau to gas drilling despite broad opposition
Posted inArticles
War of Fog
Fighting the West Nile Virus and a culture war in a small Colorado town
Posted inArticles
Taxed off the farm
New Mexico’s rural property tax laws could price out longtime residents
Posted inArticles
We thought we were safe
I live close to tall trees in Northern California, and on the afternoon of June 12, I held our mare, Millie, and watched wildfire advance toward the draw not 1,000 away where my wife and I had almost finished building our home. We’d been working on the house for almost four years. The wind pushed […]
Posted inArticles
Don’t call plugging wolves hunting
It’s been about three months since wolves in the Northern Rockies were removed from the protection of the Endangered Species Act. To date, at least 20 wolves have been reported killed in Wyoming, where they may legally be shot on sight. That’s an average of one wolf killed every four and half days. Five of […]