‘Make your voice heard’

Bernalillo County officials are asking eligible voters who haven’t yet voted to cast their ballots Tuesday. “Every election is an opportunity to make your voice heard,” County Clerk Linda Stover said in a news release. “By voting, you’re taking an active role in shaping our community’s future and ensuring your values are represented.” Aside from […]

East Mountains residents rail against proposed Diamond Tail Solar

Residents of the East Mountains area outside of Albuquerque packed into the Vista Grande Community Center in Sandia Park on Oct. 29 to express opposition for a proposed solar farm with battery storage. The Diamond Tail Solar Project would be built on private land that has been used for cattle ranching and filming movies. Before […]

East Mountains residents rail against proposed Diamond Tail Solar

Residents of the East Mountains area outside of Albuquerque packed into the Vista Grande Community Center in Sandia Park on Oct. 29 to express opposition for a proposed solar farm with battery storage. The Diamond Tail Solar Project would be built on private land that has been used for cattle ranching and filming movies. Before […]

Trump might target fluoride in tap water. Here’s what the science says.

By Annabelle Timsit, Dan Diamond, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist who is poised to have significant control over health and food safety in a potential Donald Trump administration, has promised to immediately seek to remove fluoride from drinking water in the United States. Trump, when recently asked about Kennedy’s […]

Trump might target fluoride in tap water. Here’s what the science says.

By Annabelle Timsit, Dan Diamond, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist who is poised to have significant control over health and food safety in a potential Donald Trump administration, has promised to immediately seek to remove fluoride from drinking water in the United States. Trump, when recently asked about Kennedy’s […]

Conspiracy theories shaped the 2024 election

By Sarah Ellison, The Washington Post (c) 2024 In the aftermath of the extraordinary 2016 victories by Brexit and Donald Trump, the Oxford Dictionaries chose “post-truth” as the word of the year. The concept outlived 2016. Conspiracy theories now help define elections once defined by their winners. After Trump lost in 2020, he denied reality, […]

Conspiracy theories shaped the 2024 election

By Sarah Ellison, The Washington Post (c) 2024 In the aftermath of the extraordinary 2016 victories by Brexit and Donald Trump, the Oxford Dictionaries chose “post-truth” as the word of the year. The concept outlived 2016. Conspiracy theories now help define elections once defined by their winners. After Trump lost in 2020, he denied reality, […]

How a New Mexico county pulled back from the brink of election chaos

By Peter Jamison, The Washington Post (c) 2024 BERNALILLO, N.M. – Joey Dominguez stood in a warehouse on the dusty western flank of Interstate 25, speaking over the whine of fans set into the building’s corrugated wall panels. His audience, the last 10 among more than400 volunteers Dominguez had trained to work the upcoming election, […]