Carlos A. Pacheco, who's been hunting on the White Peak land for years, says he came to the news conference to "protest some [...]
Carlos A. Pacheco, who's been hunting on the White Peak land for years, says he came to the news conference to "protest some [...]
As promised, here’s the good stuff:
“The Commissioners must lead by example————”
The PRC let reporters in to view super-thick binders with copies of a couple hundred survey ethics survey, like this one. Most were not redacted. Indeed, most responders didn’t [...]
On Nov. 12, the Second US Appeals Court ruled to uphold a 2007 New York district court decision in Wilson v. Central Intelligence Agency, the case in which former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her publisher, Simon & Schuster Inc., challenged the CIA’s heavy-handed redactions from [...]
It’s been an up-and-down year for the College of Santa Fe and its movie theater, The Screen. When the college entered dire financial straits in late 2008/early 2009 (or, rather, it entered them a long time ago, but only revealed to the public and its students, staff [...]
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Former US Attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias, is featured in the most recent Esquire Magazine’s Best and Brightest 2009 issue.
The article retraces the now-historical (or at least will-be-at-any-moment-historical) role Iglesias played in dismantling George W Bush’s Department of [...]
Update, 2:39pm: Here’s a response to this blog from Gilbert Gallegos, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor’s Office:
Nobody is asking lobbyists to “solve New Mexico’s budget woes.” And the Governor is not looking for a consensus or any recommendations from the task force. He wants a thorough analysis of [...]
In a pre-coffee, pre-email check Twitter post this AM, I gave props to the Santa Fe New Mexican’s “bombshell” on the results of the Public Regulation Commission’s internal ethics survey. Turns out the PRC sent the survey results to reporters around the state last night. Anyway, the New [...]
Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce president (and blogger) Simon Brackley passes along this chart, compiled from Chamber members’ responses to the question, “If a declining economy forces you to have to cut business expenses in the year ahead, will you cut?”
(Presumably, there should be an ellipsis after “will you [...]
Update 3: SFR asked Nathaniel Owings, owner of Owings-Dewey Fine Art, by email (he could not be reached by phone): “Is Owings-Dewey planning on moving or opening up a second location? If so, where? Are you considering the Marcy Street location where the gallery used [...]
As the Journal reported the other day, the 1st Judicial District nominating commission narrowed down a 17-person field to six names, which have been sent to Gov. Bill Richardson. He’ll use those to pick Judge James Hall’s replacement. Hall retires at the end of the year.
Below, [...]
Last night, in a spacious room at the Santa Fe Public Schools Admin Center, a bow-tied and dapper Steven Bingler expounded on the virtues of holistic urban planning, walkability, sustainability, the future—and how it all comes back to Santa Fe.
For the uninitiated, Bingler is something of [...]
Down at the 1st Judicial District Courthouse in Santa Fe, the judicial nominating commission to replace retiring Judge James Hall has begun interviewing the 17 candidates for the job. One Republican commissioner, Frank Bond, is absent.
Only one person showed up early to offer public comment. Santa Fe attorney Sylvia [...]
Corporate greed, or top-secret-special meritocracy? Nuclear Watch of New Mexico has uncovered a somewhat astounding little figure: Michael Anastasio, the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), earns $800,348 a year—almost twice as much as US President Barack Obama (who makes $400,000, with a $50K cushion for [...]
Today’s Journal North Journal Santa Fe Santa Fe Journal* has a rather enraging story about an artist, Paul Pascarella, who, after getting hit by a passing vehicle, got a ticket for walking on the wrong side of the road. From the Journal (subscription required):
Pascarella was walking on a narrow [...]
Yesterday, at a meeting of the Santa Fe Council on International Relations, retired Los Alamos National Laboratory engineer Arvid Lundy spoke on a range of subjects related to the very salient theme of Iran’s nuclear weapons project.
After close to an hour of photos, statistics, histories and [...]
The New Mexico “Green Jobs Cabinet report” was released yesterday. It’s 98 pages of wonkery not intended for the casual reader.
Not to nitpick—or fearmonger—but there’s a word missing in the report. It’s kind of important. The word is earthquakes.
Although the report spends a good amount [...]
Here’s the news from tonight’s Santa Fe City Council meeting. I’ll update throughout the meeting (until I split, that is. Then you can follow the webcast here).
Railyard Cinema
One of this week’s more controversial items was placed, oddly enough, on the consent calendar, intended for pro [...]
Why LANL’s latest media dust-up shouldn’t be taken lightly.
On Monday, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board released a damning report on the safety of the main plutonium facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The crux of the report is that in the case [...]
The current issue of SFR has an update on the still-somewhat-mysterious death of Gilbert Roybal, the hair salon owner who was struck—apparently just once—on the street on Fiesta weekend, and died the next morning.
First, SFR reported witnesses’ concerns that responding Santa Fe Police Department [...]
Which of these costumes is safe enough for Santa Fe?
The Santa Fe Police Department has released its tips for safe trick-or-treating on Halloween, and while safety should in no way be taken lightly, these guidelines nonetheless do inspire [...]
A news release from the capital just came in, and it sounds like good news: Gov. Richardson’s freezing capital outlay projects and canceling grant agreements for all projects that don’t have third-party agreements. According to politico Steve Terrell, this could mean eliminating anything from the opera’s [...]
Got any thoughts on the new budget bills? Any feelings about the $250-million-plus cuts in government spending and services? On the seven long days (cost: $50,000 each) of tussling over how to save New Mexico from its $650 million budget shortfall? The bills are [...]
This just in from the Capitol: Sen. Rod Adair’s proposal to amend the House budget adjustment bill by slashing last year’s “pit rules,” which strengthened requirements for waste disposal by oil and gas producers, failed. Adair claims the amendment would’ve brought an extra $140 million into state [...]
State whistleblower Frank Foy’s attorney, Victor Marshall, just sent around a note saying Foy was diagnosed with colon cancer last week. According to Marshall, Foy “is undergoing surgery this morning to remove a section of his intestine. We hope that he will be okay. The prognosis is uncertain.”
Foy was [...]
Noting that some 4,000 New Mexicans will run out of unemployment benefits by the end of the year, the state’s senior US Senator, Jeff Bingaman, wants his colleagues to pick up the pace on approving an extension of benefits.
“It will not eliminate the dread [the unemployed] have about the need [...]
LT. GOVERNOR DIANE DENISH CHALLENGES SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO SAVE MONEY
Santa Fe, NM – Lt. Governor Diane Denish will be meeting with New Mexico school superintendents tomorrow to discuss energy cost saving measures. [...]
Santa Fe City Councilor Matt Ortiz gave SFR a look at a binder showing the expenses and revenues of Santa Fe 400th Anniversary, Inc, the largely public-funded non-profit organization that’s staging events for the celebration. In SFR’s earlier reporting on the anniversary budget, 400th Executive Director Libby Dover declined [...]
In case of emergency, break glass: Inside Railyard Co LLC's "offices"
SFR has learned that one of the principals in the company that wants taxpayers to help build a cinema in the Railyard has been charged several times with writing bad checks. Railyard Co LLC principal Richard [...]
So I was buying lunch at Bagelmania today when a headline in the latest issue of The New Mexico Jewish Link grabbed my attention: “Sharia is America’s Single Biggest Threat.”
It was a good thing I hadn’t yet gotten my food and started eating, or I [...]
