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 [...]
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If the prospect of hunting for a downtown parking spot in order to shop like a maniac on Black Friday leaves you cold (or, in my case, existentially nauseated), never fear. The city’s Buy Into It campaign (of which SFR is [...]
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 [...]
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