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CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues

2025-05-29 Rich Wright CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water Leave a comment

From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility

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CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads

2025-05-17 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water One comment

by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental

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Dolores Huerta: Still Inspiring the Fight for a New Society

2025-04-09 Kent Paterson New Mexico, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Sporting a black beret that nicely complemented her attire, Dolores Huerta looked ready for battle. The life-long

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The Water Crisis in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa One Year Later, Part One: Residents Seek Stricter Federal Oversight of Water Utility

2025-01-03 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson Lawyers for residents of Sunland Park and Santa Teresa have requested stepped up oversight of a publicly-owned

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New Mexico Chile: Notes on a Conquered and Downsized Empire

2024-10-14 Kent Paterson Culture, New Mexico, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson In the farmlands that sketch green the Mesilla Valley between Las Cruces and El Paso, the writer

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Low Rent Mayhem in Cruces

2024-08-11 elrichiboy Crime, Las Cruces, New Mexico, News One comment

Look at this crazy story from Las Cruces, via CBS4Local.com: A Santa Fe, N.M., murder suspect was arrested Saturday evening

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Sunland Park Déjà Vu: Water, Management Crisis and Community Protest

2024-04-15 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Momentous days riveted April in the southern New Mexico border communities of Sunland Park and neighboring Santa

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The Minimum Wage

2022-01-18 elrichiboy Economic Development, Economics, New Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

On January 1, New Mexico’s minimum wage went to $11.50 an hour. That’s right. A minimum wage job in Sunland

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“An Intersection of Possibilities”

2019-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Juarez, New Mexico, population, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

From the people who brought you the Glass Beach Study. Here’s a nice video promoting El Paso, Las Cruces and

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Where Am I?

2018-08-18 elrichiboy History, New Mexico 13 comments

A reader sent in this photo, and he’s looking to identify the location. Here’s what Phillip tells us: Westward bound

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Still Lives: Taos

2018-04-05 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Art, New Mexico, Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse From 2011 to 2013, Richard Baron traveled throughout New Mexico photographing

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Still Lives: Flora Vista

2018-03-22 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse New Mexico, Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse From 2011 to 2013, Richard Baron traveled throughout New Mexico photographing

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