Learning Place: New Mexico Towns Shaped by History and Space
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers discusses how towns like Las Vegas and Carlsbad gain identity through history public spaces and architecture. She notes 900 National Register properties in Las Vegas and cites examples such as river walks depots plazas and museums that anchor local character.
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Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Las Vegas
New York
Meadow City
Rogers
Historical Society of New Mexico
Eddy County
Carlsbad
Grants
New Mexico Mining Museum
Espanola Recre
Gallup
Farmington
Santa Fe
Editorial How to lower long term joblessness
The piece cites Michelle Obama hosting Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day and highlights Charlotte Bell asking for her dad’s resume amid long term unemployment. It cites BLS data showing 3.7 million long term jobless in March, notes the jobless trap, and urges stronger GDP growth to spur job creation as a solution.
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White House
Michelle Obama
Charlotte
Bell
America
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Rand Ghayad
Alan Krueger
Brookings Institution
Krueger
Obama
Where Has All the Money Gone in Government Spending
Cal Thomas comments on federal waste and earmarks citing reports from USA Today, The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Fiscal Times. He notes billions missing at the State Department and massive waste, urging accountability and awareness of pork barrelling in 2014 federal spending.
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Pentagon
USA Today
Defense Department
Government Accountability Office
New York Times
Brooklyn
the Times
IRS
Washington Post
Navy
Marine One
State Department
Fiscal Times
The
Wall Street Journal
Citizens Against
CAGW
Congress
Department of Homeland Security
DHS
Heavenly Hope or Earthly Paradise Debate in the Letter
A reader challenges Russell Scott and church teaching arguing Christians have both a heavenly and earthly hope. The writer states only a chosen few will reign as Kings Priests and Judges during a thousand year earthly rule and questions what those in heaven will actually do while on earth.
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Russell Scott
Heaven
Russell
Jehovah's Witnesses
Paradise
Earth
Tian
Washington
Christ
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Cal
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