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If Bottled Water is the Devil, What's a Thirsty Person To Do?

Santa Fe Reporter | August 14, 2008

Mounting evidence suggests bottled water -- between the waste produced by the bottles and the energy consumed to produce and transport it -- is a considerable threat to the environment. Green-minded folks have been trying to find alternatives to plastic bottles, but the alternatives are few -- and raise environmental questions of their own.

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Tags: New Mexico, environment, water, bottled water, plastics

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Gail Y. Okawa’s Research Uncovered the History of Japanese Internment in New Mexiconew

Gail Y. Okawa found out in her teens that her grandfather, Reverend Tamasaku Watanabe, had been interned at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, which housed 4,555 men from 1942 to 1946 in what is now the Casa Solana neighborhood.

Santa Fe Reporter | Charlotte Jusinski | 03-25-2010 | Race & Class

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Mystery Man: Author Tony Hillerman's Legacy Lives Onnew

Hillerman began his career as a journalist for The Santa Fe New Mexican and went on to author more than 30 books, most of which were mystery novels set in New Mexico -- more specifically, Navajo lands. Hillerman died last October at the age of 83.

Santa Fe Reporter | Charlotte Jusinski | 09-17-2009 | Books

Tags: Tony Hillerman, Southwest, Native Americans, Skinwalkers, authors, journalists

Robin Romm's 'The Mercy Papers'new

In The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks, author Robin Romm has opened herself to the world in a courageous little book that chronicles the three weeks before her mother’s death.

Santa Fe Reporter | Charlotte Jusinski | 01-29-2009 | Nonfiction

Tags: memoirs, Robin Romm, The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks

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Appropriate This!new

While most fashion and pop culture trends in the digital age are quick to die out, that of appropriating elements historically associated with Native American culture seems to be holding strong. SFR reached out to a group of artists, established and emerging, and asked about their reality, inspiration and challenges.

Santa Fe Reporter | Enrique Limón | 08-19-2015 | Culture