Howard Zinn was legendary. If you have never heard of him, you owe it to yourself to discover this great American.

Do corporations have 'free speech' rights? The Supreme Court thinks so.

Politicians have deemed some banks and financial institutions "too large to fail" and bailed them out with billions of taxpayer dollars. A group now urges investors to divest from "too large to fail" financial institutions.

The for-profit health care industry has been spending approximately 1.4 million dollars a day to defeat reform of the U.S. health care system. Their spending levels may be up, but the quality of their message is definitely down.

Senator Udall's staff will be available in Socorro and Magdalena to assist constituents with issues they may have related to the federal government, including veteran's affairs, passport issues, social security benefits, and so forth.

We're hearing a lot about health care lately, but we rarely hear much about our neighbor to the north. Just how bad is it up there, anyway?!

Dr. James E. Hansen, a physicist by training, directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. On June 23rd, he addressed the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming; we present his full testimony here. If Hansen's remarks don't get your attention, nothing will.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory renamed the building which houses the operational staff for the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in honor of retiring NM Senator Pete Domenici. The renaming has not been without its share of controversy. Full video report here.

In the democratic primary for district 2, Las Cruces oil man, Harry Teague, is blanketing the airwaves with ads due to his largely self-funded political campaign (he's loaned his campaign over $700,000 of his own money). Bill McCamley, on the other hand, is getting by on the donations of regular folks making small contributions. While oil money can buy lots of things: fancy cars, fancy houses, and fancy clothes, one thing it should NOT be able to buy is a congressional seat.

With gas rapidly approaching $4.00 per gallon, this is a good time to start thinking about solutions to our oil addiction. Unfortunately, many so-called conservatives are now spouting "solutions" that do nothing to actually address the root of the problem, but instead serve only to further enrich the oil companies and keep us dependent on a commodity that funnels money to dictatorial (and unfriendly) regimes while simultaneously polluting the very air that we and our children breathe.