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Will Thursday's tragic events at Fort Hood, Texas spur a reactionary backlash of hatred and xenophobia like those eight years ago in New York and Washington did? Or will their relative smallness, and isolation from the diabolical cell-executed mass murder at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, allow our violated nation to treat the killing of 12 soldiers and a civilian as the senseless act of violence it appears to be?
America has seen too many acts of the kind carried out Thursday by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan: Only a day later, a fired employee in Orlando, Fla., opened fire on fellow workers, killing at least one and wounding several others. And three days from now, we'll be starkly reminded of the "Beltway sniper" panic of 2002 when John Allen Muhammad is executed by the state of Virginia for the murder of one of his 10 victims.
Military authorities will have hell's own time explaining how Hasan, a psychiatrist too late seen as a menace, went untreated and largely undetect ... Read more >>
Editorial: City Hall should shelve inter-basin water idea
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Action, re-action: It's a fine old physics principle stated clearly three centuries ago by Sir Isaac Newton — and it also has political application. Sometimes the reaction is delayed, like the lurching of so many boxcars after a train engine starts m ... Read more >>
Editorial: Credit reform law didn't end gouging
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Even as they wrung their hands and pleaded both for federal support and congressional leniency toward their lending practices, some of America's leading bankers were scurrying about in search of ways to blur the distinction between themselves and str ... Read more >>
Editorial: A vulnerable bird is wind-turbine caution
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This just in: barbed wire is bad for sage grouse. Not to demean that noble, fascinating and nice-tasting avian, but darn near everything poses hazards to it, owing largely to its chunky physique, limited flying ability and relatively slow running spe ... Read more >>
Editorial: Diplomatic coup follows military one
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Neither side of the past summer's Honduran military coup covered itself with glory — and the same went for outsiders messing in it: Venezuelan ruler Hugo Chávez, sponsor of deposed President Manuel Zelaya's return to the Brazilian embassy in Teguciga ... Read more >>
Editorial: Santa Fe County takes initiative in renewable energy
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The devil's going to be in the details — and many of 'em might not be obvious to would-be pioneers in alternative power sources — but with last week's creation of a renewable-energy financing district, the Board of Santa Fe County Commissioners has t ... Read more >>
Editorial: For earth, sky, jobs, energy reform needed
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At a gathering of high-gear Western-state legislators late last month in Jackson Hole, one of Wyoming's few folks in Washington wrapped himself in the flag as his response to all the talk about alternative energy: He's in favor of "green" jobs, said ... Read more >>
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Clean environment bill on its way
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I'd like to thank Sen. Tom Udall and the other members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee who took the first step toward moving our country toward a sustainable future by passing clean energy and climate legislation out of committee ... Read more>>
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