Updated 11am Thursday.
“Inexcusable”—that’s the word the Vatican used to describe Irish Bishop Donal Murray’s sex scandal cover-ups. But why not extend that pithy description to the Richardson administration for its refusal to support transparent, responsible governance?
So begins Kate Nash’s front-page story in the New Mexican this morning: “The [...]
Activists at Copenhagen. (Photo courtesy Joan Brown)
This ain’t no Climategate: SFR’s been getting its own totally legit e-mails from New Mexicans at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP-15, for short) that began Mon., Dec. 7 and [...]
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico
You’d think he’d be kinda busy with that whole health care thing, but US Sen. Jeff Bingaman has apparently found time to reform the mining industry, too. To be fair, Bingaman introduced the bill in April, but it [...]
Protesters gathered on the steps of the state land office in November.
According to State Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, the White Peak land swap issue is far from over. In what Egolf calls a cooked [...]
Today, former Republican New Mexico Guv Gary Johnson launched a “special advocacy committee” called the OUR America Initiative. According to the inaugural post on the website’s blog, the goal of the Initiative is “to broaden the parameters of the public policy debate of current topics in [...]
Alfredo Vigil, DOH Secretary
State employees can work on New Year’s Eve, according to a press release just in from the Governor’s office; the Dec. 31 furlough day will be shifted to Friday, March 5, 2010. The furloughs, which apply to 17,000 state employees, [...]
The Santa Fe River in September.
(A little weekend reading on water, life and the future of the Santa Fe watershed. The story’s after the jump.)
David Harrington, who is beanpole-tall and sports an old-fashioned ten-gallon-style felt hat, came to yesterday’s State of the Santa Fe Watershed Conference wearing [...]
State Senator Sue Wilson Beffort, R-Bernalillo
Senator Sue Wilson Beffort, R-Bernalillo, is on the fiscal warpath, and she wants the New Mexico Department of Health to own up to nepotist practices in hiring—during a hiring freeze.
The Department of Health, Beffort says, hired approximately 91 new employees after [...]
At 7:23pm last night (old news, FB-time), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerman posted an open letter to all users, informing us that the FB management plans to “build a better system” for privacy control. Except building, in this case, essentially means eliminating regional networks like “Santa [...]
Today is World AIDS Day, which is why Twitter is red and Santa Fe Community College is offering free, confidential HIV/AIDS testing and Southwest CARE Center is organizing a farolito-bedecked remembrance tonight (5:30pm) in the Railyard.
But for one New Mexican (who preferred to [...]
As Sandoval County’s experimental desalination plant nears the end of its pilot run, the age-old question of where New Mexico will get enough water to sustain it appears to have some new answers. For some people, anyway. Bruce Thomson, the civil engineering professor who heads UNM’s Water [...]
Updated at 5:05pm Tuesday; correction 9:16am Wednesday.
The details change, but the story never does.
The latest Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) brouhaha unfolded yesterday, when the New Mexico Environment Department slammed the lab with a hefty $960,000 penalty for failing to properly monitor radioactive pollutants [...]
Carlos A. Pacheco, who's been hunting on the White Peak land for years, says he came to the news conference to "protest some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
