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.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... Natalia Chavez, center, is mobbed by her Volcano Vista teammates after hitting a shot from beyond 45 feet at the OT buzzer to beat Hobbs for the 5A girls basketball title. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal) Saturday, April 10, as much as any day, defined the staggering weirdness of the spring 2021 prep sports semester in New Mexico. On the same day, the state was staging fall sports in the form of state soccer finals, winter sports in the form of basketball, and the start of spring sports. That kind of confluence had never before occurred. Or, maybe it was April 1 that underlined this point with more clarity, with prep football played inside University Stadium, part of a five-games-in-three days “bowl game” experiment by the New Mexico Activities Association in lieu of an actual football postseason. ....
Letter: Litigation is not the answer to climate change Share The environment has always been an important issue to Mainers, including myself, and I look forward to hearing more details about the Climate Action Plan unveiled in December. But while I support the plan’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, our leaders in Augusta should pursue a pragmatic approach to enacting climate policy. That approach, however, must be driven by the acknowledgment that our collective actions – not those of any one industry or group of companies – brought us to the environmental reality we are now facing. Unfortunately, there is a movement to play the blame game as over a dozen municipalities and several states are suing energy manufacturers, seeking damages over climate change impacts. These lawsuits did not spring up organically, but, as the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project (MAP) revealed, are being driven by a coordinated network of various groups, individuals and ....