David Brancaccio is host of NOW, a weekly news and analysis program that airs on PBS. In April, Brancaccio and his team were awarded the 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Coverage.
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A campuswide e-mail sent out Aug. 27 gave some students the impression that the Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention would be disclosing the locations of DUI checkpoints. “As a service to everyone, COSAP will be sending you notices of upcoming checkpoints throughout the year,” the e-mail stated. Jill Anne Yeagley, COSAP program manager, said the message was misinterpreted. “The e-mail in question wasn’t a lot different from e-mails we have previously sent to students, so I was surprised that it would be interpreted to mean we were going to provide checkpoint locations,” Yeagley said in a follow-up e-mail the next day.
Editor, UNM’s tobacco-free policy has its faults, most of which come from the manner in which it is being treated.
Editor, This country is abusing its warriors in the Middle East by sending them on multiple tours. It’s taking its toll on the soldiers and their families.
It’s my first week at UNM, and I am determined to make a friend. I made it into a Ph.D. program. Certainly I am capable of making a friend.
New Mexico Tea Company’s Tea Bar isn’t your grandmother’s tea house, but there’s no guarantee she won’t go after she hears about it. This summer, owner David Edwards expanded his company, which opened in 2006, into a cozy, full-fledged tea bar, open on the weekends, that serves tea and a light meal. “There’s a stereotype that just grandmothers drink tea,” Edwards said.
The first vineyards in North America were grown in New Mexico, and the nearly 400-year tradition continues today at a winery within Albuquerque city limits. John Calvin, owner of Casa Rondeña Winery, said he began making wine after a successful career as an architect and musician.
Editor, As a veteran of the U.S. armed forces, two emotions came to mind as I read James N. Post’s letter on veterans benefits. The first emotion was that of pride.
Editor, The state of New Mexico, along with nearly every other state in the union, is facing hard times due to the global economic crisis of the past year.
Editor, My first lunch at La Posada, under the then-new management of Chartwells, was motivated by a Friday special and my love of buffets.
Sit down in the deep mountains of South Korea. Prepare to find your inner self. Sang Hwan Kim, the producer of “Zen Buddhism: In Search of Self,” which premieres at a Singapore film festival this month, says that one can spiritually die and be reborn, become one with the body and mind, and ascend to another level of life through meditation. The documentary is set in the Baek Hung (pronounced ‘beck kung’) Temple, deep in the Palgong Mountains of Daegu, South Korea, during a 90-day event known as Dong Ahn Geo, when Zen Buddhist nuns gather for rigorous meditation, fasting and contemplation. Kim, a Korean-American who was born in what is now South Korea, is working on a doctorate in exercise science at UNM.
Ben McClintock has returned to his native Albuquerque, but only for a bit. He graduated from Berklee College of Music for guitar, but figured too many other people did the same thing.
The tobacco-free campus policy went into effect over a month ago, but designated tobacco-use areas are still being marked. Of the 12 smoking areas on campus listed on the UNM Smoke Free Campus Web site, four are not physically marked.
A man police suspect of stealing five bicycles valued between $2,250 and $12,500 was arrested on campus July 24. UNMPD said Charles Gutierrez has been sawing through protective chains and cables to steal bicycles and pawn them for at least two years.
Editor, Not one step back did Republican candidate Allen Weh take as he fielded hardball questions on campus last week.
Editor, Veterans benefits are a form of socialism. No other employer besides the government is either obligated or able to pay lifetime pensions, subsistence and health care benefits to all of its present and former employees, much less entitled to tax everyone else to pay whatever it costs. A system of hospitals on the federal budget that offer free medical care only to a group of present or former employees of the government in certain capacities is a form of socialism.
The history of the newspaper stretches back to the turn of the 17th century, but now Americans are watching that proud tradition disintegrate.
Lev Grossman is after your inner child. In his latest novel, The Magicians, Grossman aims to kill that small hope many of us harbor: If magic existed, the world would be a better place.
“The reason I write music is because I want people to start falling in love again,” said Cliff Campbell, a local guitar teacher and performer. Campbell’s new DVD, “Helio Raie,” takes viewers on a supernatural and kaleidoscopic journey that features the acoustic and electric forms of Campbell’s music.
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