Dave Maass
In contexts better left unexplained, staff writer Dave Maass has been called a "tortured genius" by the Tucson Weekly, a "budding Hemingway" by the Arizona Republic, an "intellectual masturbator" by The Inlander, a "super nudge" by The Stranger, "very nice" by Douglas Coupland, and Michael Moore once wrote him a letter of recommendation, which he never submitted anywhere, then misplaced.
Stories by Dave Maass
Indicators: Oct. 14
New Mexico's video gaming industry and its...future?
Briefs: Oct. 14
Updates on the the flat spot left in the wake churned up by the Zocalo auctions and on Fed Ex NOT shipping dirty bombs.
Kokeheads
Adam Kokesh, the Republican candidate for New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District seat—currently held by Democratic US Rep. Ben Ray Luján—is picking up support from Truthers, Birthers, Deathers and Tea Partiers, whose affiliations run the gamut from disenchanted Democrats to white supremacists.
Radiation Therapy
On Oct. 25, International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors will get their first tour of Iran's new nuclear facility. Over the last two months, domestic nuclear inspectors have issued several reports regarding radiological incidents and administrative shortcomings in New Mexico. Though officials downplay the extent of the problems, the reports are startling.
Briefs: Oct. 7
The resurgence of cattlemen and wildcatters.
Indicators: Sept. 30
The economy as seen through the lens of an animal shelter.
Networked News
As grim as the media landscape may seem, New Mexico’s online and nonprofit media—mere bean sprouts by comparison—are actually expanding. Still, it’s too earlier to tell if they will grow large enough to support this tree house we call democracy.
The New Ball & Chain
In orbit 13,000 miles above earth, 24 US military satellites with atomic-clock hearts cycle the earth twice a day. In New Mexico, the Corrections Department relies on this Big Brother-style satellite technology to track the 80 sex offenders currently under real-time electronic supervision.
Uncertain Fates
Although the New Mexico Legislature voted to repeal the death penalty in March, the new law doesn’t impact the two men currently on death row or any others who could be sentenced to death for crimes committed before July 2009.
Briefs: Sept. 23
Fiesta crime tally, court-ordered document shredding and bargaining chips for serial killers.
