Published February 12. 2021 7:53AM
Bill Stanley, Special to The Times
The Super Bowl, arguably the biggest sporting event in the world, will always carry special sentimental meaning for me.
This year’s big event was held Sunday, pitting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the defending-champion Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs were led by Patrick Mahomes, the greatest young quarterback in the NFL. The Bucs were led by their quarterback, Tom Brady, the Greatest Of All Time.
This was the 55th Super Bowl (LV). (Do you also wish the NFL would do away with the Roman numerals and just list the game with standard numbers? It would be reassuring to know there are others who weren’t paying attention when we were supposed to be learning Roman numerals in grammar school.)
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When the Great Recession ended in 2009, it took the United States five years to regain lost jobs. In New Mexico, recovery took twice that long, with the state surpassing its pre-recession employment levels just before the COVID-19 pandemic brought the economy to a halt.
It was a lost decade of job growth that stalled upward mobility for workers and families and forced college graduates – New Mexico’s future – to leave the state for opportunities elsewhere.
The reason it took twice as long to recover: New Mexico’s answer to tight budgets was to cut economic development investments in the LEDA fund to almost zero and to suppress funding to New Mexico’s longest and best-rated workforce training program, the Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP).
By Ellyn Kail on December 12, 2020
“The history of photography is based on the experiments of amateurs,” the photographer Samuel Trachsel, who works at an analog photography store in Zurich, tells us. “Even today, a century and a half later, there is a very cool and active DIY community devoted to the craft of building cameras.”
He’s right; as of this writing, Instagram has more than 7,000 posts under the hashtag #DIYCamera and 5,600 under #HomemadeCamera. Meanwhile, The Homemade Camera Podcast with Nick and Graham features some truly inspiring ideas, while the popular Instagram account ShittyRigs show just how far photographers are willing to go to get the perfect shot in a pinch.