Linemen Pulitzer: tribute to utility workers amid brutal wind storm
Viewpoint honors electric company linemen and rural crews for dangerous, essential work after a bomb cyclone caused outages across eastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle. An Xcel employee died restoring power as 150000 customers lost service and winds toppled infrastructure.
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Questioning Objectivity in Journalism and Literature
Steve Hansen reflects on how scientific ideas like entropy and the Heisenberg principle shape storytelling and reporting. He cites Wigner on observer effects and discusses whether objective truth is attainable in news coverage, weighing the balance between fairness and factual rigor.
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Legislation vs Morality On Vices In U S History
Tom McDonald editor of the New Mexico Community News Exchange reflects on how regulation of tobacco alcohol marijuana and gambling has shifted over five decades. He notes retreats of blue laws shifts toward legalization and the failed outcomes of Prohibition and the war on drugs.
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Nevada
Las Vegas
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New Mexico
America
Tom McDonald
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