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 Dave Grenfeld Yet for the past 20 years, the city's namesake river has not been a river at all for most of the year, but a dry, weed-choked ditch -- blocked by upstream dams. Restoring flows to the Santa Fe River would provide not only a healthy ecosystem, but also a place for residents to rejuvenate, visitors to enjoy and children to play. Local and state officials have set the stage for the river's revival -- now it's up to the city of Santa Fe to put the "river" in river restoration.
"We're trying to restore the health of this river, the Santa Fe River. People started using this water, Europeans started using this water from around 1610 when the city was founded. We're going to have our 400th in a couple of years. Normally this river is dry. It's been dry for the last twenty years or so. Not all the time, but most of the time. The river water is impounded upstream..." |
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 Gov Bill Richardson Democratic presidential primary candidate and Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson talks with Ben Smith of YouTube's political team. Richardson talks about his "Job Interview" YouTube video, answers users questions, and delivers a message to North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il.
"A lot of people ask me, well would you be interested in being vice-president or secretary of state. The answer is 'no', because I have the greatest job in the world. And I've got four years to go as governor of New Mexico. Of course I' want to be president, but if that doesn't happen, I'm into building bridges, bringing people together, doing things.
"A governor can create jobs and make a state renewable..., make schools better. Build and create new jobs. That's what I like to do. A governor can do that, so in five years if I'm not president, I'll still be governor..." |
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 Dave Marash Larry Anderson: "Many of these traders hire Indian people to produce these jeweleries in mass quantity. And so the whole intention of this is not real no more. It's fake."
Marash: "On the reservation where there are simply too few 'first jobs', almost everybody's 'second job' is making or selling arts & crafts..." Often the differences between the Navajo artists and the Palestinian traders have less to do with a collision of interests than they do with the near miss of completely different 'world views'..." |
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 Dave Marash "Heading west on the fabled Route 66, the street which used to call itself 'America's Main Street'. As we near the edge of Gallup, New Mexico, something really surprising rises into view. It's a mosque. If you'll drive on another couple of miles to where Route 66 actually does become Gallup's main street, you'll see the businesses of the people who regularly fill that mosque. Several dozen Palestinians who have moved here over the last 30 years in order to trade in the heart of Indian country.
Gallup, New Mexico sits right off of the southeastern corner of the Navajo Nation's huge reservation - itself bigger than 10 American states..." |
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 Bill Richardson
"I'm Bill Richardson. Here in New Mexico we've lost too many soldiers in Iraq just like Iowa and every other state. We have to end this war now.
The one thing the Iraqis agree on is they want us to leave. Our troops have done everything we've asked and I don't want to see any more die.
I approved this message because Congress has got to stand up to this president. We need to get all of our troops out of Iraq. George Bush won't do that, but I will." |
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