Columns

An Open Book

I recently visited Carol A. Clark and Bonnie Gordon at the Los Alamos Daily Post office to congratulate them on the inaugural print issue of their newspaper.

As a fellow hard-hitting journalist, I know how challenging it is to maintain a high quality press publication [Editor’s Note: Writing a few hundred words every few months does not a “hard-hitting” journalist make]. I asked them how they would fill up a full size weekly once the number of submissions with pictures of hummingbirds, bears and rainbows, or letters about Read More

By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

Costs Say Little Without Context

Now four decades into the “eco-age,” I wonder why the economic impact of cleaning up remains so hazy. The reason, I think, is mutual fear … fear on both sides that the numbers will hurt their cause. 
Every environmental debate is a contest between two values – the vitality of nature and the economy. The rebuttal to each comes from the other.

Nature studies abound. Nature studies means studies of air, water, land, and every living thing therein and thereon, as measured in physical terms, Read More