LCCC Oct. 19 Meeting Commentary

By:  Galen Farrington What  is a Sacrifice Zone? When I taught freshman English at Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso, I taughtthe two-part selection, “Cancer Alley, The Poisoning of the American South” andthe class was introduced to the concept of Environmental Justice andspecifically the term “environmental racism.”  Today, ten years later,those living along the 85-mile stretch along…

The following Letter to the Editor was published in Ruidoso News on March 1, 2022 Recently I’ve read two journalistic accounts concerning the opposition to Roper Construction’s proposed concrete batch plant to be located near the intersection of Highways 48 and 220. One, published by the Union County Leader (16 February, Clayton, New Mexico) and the second was published…

By the Alto CEP Now that it has been established that the immediate and expanded areas surrounding the proposed Alto concrete batch plant (cbp) are primarily residential as unraveled in part one, Judge Sugg suggests a historical complicity favoring the placement of such plants in Lincoln County with misleading and antiquated information. The lead sentence…

The political divide in the US has never been wider in my experience. It is so wide that unanimous agreement about any topic is almost an impossibility. Almost. In yesterday’s Lincoln County (NM) Commission meeting this joint statement opposing the Alto Concrete Batch Plant was read into the record. Clicking on the link will open…

In spite of the activities on the lot of the proposed concrete batch plant, the legal issues we have raised are not a done deal.   The New Mexico Court of Appeals has agreed to review our cases. We are awaiting assignment of a panel of three judges in the New Mexico Court of Appeals…