Profits in Collapse: the Detmer Curve
Region: New MexicoIt’s been an observable phenomenon dating back to the middle 80s: the less money you receive in salary while all other prices go up around you, the less money you have to spend as a consumer -- duh. Thus, the Detmer Curve, identified here for the first time, figuratively tracks a now flat-lined consumer spending curve leading to a long-overdue demise of capitalist grandiosity … and more likely, much,... more
Views: 1528Apaches Routed by the Feds in Southern New Mexico
Region: New Mexico
The US Federal Government demonstrated in an opinion announced this week that it still controls how the Apaches can use their land. According to Penny Coleman, acting general counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission, the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma doesn't have legal grounds to conduct gambling at a casino it built east of Deming, New Mexico. This outcome, although not the final decision, is in respo... more
Views: 1850Bullets Fly in Palomas Despite Police Presence
Region: New Mexico
Five more people have been gunned down in Palomas, the Mexico town bordering Columbus, New Mexico. News coming out of Palomas is sketchy, but New Mexico Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos confirmed that father and son Arnoldo Carreon Renteria, 57, and Arnoldo Carreon, 25, were shot and killed at 1:30 p.m., Friday, May 9. On Sunday, Leonel Martinez Chacon, 30; Garbriel Martinez Chacon, 28; Armando Carreon Caraveo, 41... more
Views: 2847New Mexico Messiah Denies Child Abuse
Region: New Mexico
Wayne Bent, aka Michael Travesser, aka the Messiah is suspected of having inappropriate contact with minors in the 70-person The Lord Our Righteousness compound in northeastern New Mexico. Bent denies the allegations, although he acknowledges having sex with two women in the sect. Two girls and one boy were taken from the compound after an April 22 investigation, according to a spokesperson for the state Children, You... more
Views: 3174New Mexico Spaceport One Step Closer to Reality
Region: New Mexico
The passage of a tax this week could mean that a humble New Mexico city known for being named after a Fifties game show could instead be viewed as the doorstop to space travel. Much to the relief of Spaceport America supporters, Sierra County, anchored by the city Truth or Consequences, approved a quarter of 1 percent spaceport tax on Tuesday. A tax had already been approved by Doña Ana County voters last yea... more
Views: 1785Impotence of the Democrats
Region: New Mexico
What follows is an unflattering critique of America’s Democratic Party from one of its own. The party’s primary problems (no pun intended) sabotage its wannabe image as the Party of Change. What change? It appears to be run by well meaning if impotent, insulated and financially settled yuppies who freeze up in the clutch. If the party can’t adequately resolve its relatively simple M... more
Views: 1460Chertoff Leaps Legal Barriers in Race to Finish Border Fence Before Year’s End
Region: New Mexico
The Bush administration will use two waivers to skirt barriers that have thwarted its plans to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest US border by the end of this year. The project is nearly half finished, with 309 miles completed mid-March, but laws, regulations and environmental challenges have prevented 267 of the total 670 miles to be finished. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff sai... more
Views: 1638New Mexico Car Containing Iraqi Money and Explosives 'Not for Terrorism'
Region: New Mexico
“While he was refueling his motorcycle, low and behold, the vehicle that he had reported stolen that belongs to him happened to pull into the gas station area also...We don’t know what their intentions were. We don’t know what they were planning on doing with any of this." Thus spoke Los Lunas Police Captain Charles Nuanes with regards to the theft of a car in Los Lunas, called in to police and di... more
Views: 1468Has Operation Jump Start Been Effective?
Region: New Mexico
The National Guard will withdraw from the Mexican border in July 2008 according to the timetable established in the Operation Jump Start (OJS) program. The Guardsmen have been augmenting the work of Border Patrol since OJS began in mid-2006. Through January, the program has cost more than $1 billion. The Guard performed as ordered in its non-enforcement role, building more than 100 miles of border fence and 18 mi... more
Views: 3231Governor Richardson Challenges Apaches in New Mexico
Region: New Mexico
Early this winter, the Apaches crept into the desert, undetected, at Akela Flats, a bump in the road along I-10, about 40 miles west of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Towing five single-wide trailers behind them, they set up camp, in an action that blindsided local media, legislators and law enforcement. Within the month, the trailers, snugged together side by side, were transformed into a public building. A tall U.S. fla... more
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