Super-Duper Tuesday n.— «Texas lawmakers want in on Super-Duper Tuesday. That’s what some people call next year’s Feb. 5 presidential primary. It just added California to Arkansas, Delaware, Missouri, Oklahoma and Utah. New Mexico...
jumper n.— «This particular four-mile stretch of fencing was historically San Diego County’s most porous border problem, he said. His officers once had 1,250 apprehensions of during just one day’s shift, he said. And if a border patrol...
leaky levee n.— «The design would include so-called “leaky levees,” an idea that features culverts at strategic locations, allowing Gulf of Mexico tides to move in and out of the northern reaches of the estuaries, maintaining...
global weirding n.— «I have heard global warming referred to as global “weirding.” That certainly seems to be the case at this point. Parts of Africa and Southern Europe are in the grips of a record breaking drought. The...
narco-saint n.— «Jesus Malverde, a legendary crime figure revered as a saint by many of the country’s drug traffickers, has received plenty worshippers since the shrine went up in the capital’s rough Doctores neighborhood.…The so...
straking n.— «Mahesh said the Department of Transportation had been applying magnesium chloride to New Mexico roads for about five years. It is a commonly used chemical to de-ice roads throughout the United States. It must be mixed to the...