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Ordinary Wildness Is Extraordinary
The cougar looks thin, his narrow belly dragging close to the ground as he slinks along. Paws as big as saucers on the oil-spotted concrete. Mouth agape in a terrified... Read more »
Housing System Should Stay Put
A majority of Santa Fe’s City Council appears to have fallen for the fiction that the city’s well-established, nationally admired and heretofore fully functional affordable housing system needs drastic changes... Read more »
ATC Is Doing Something Right
It’s one of only three schools in Santa Fe where students routinely meet federal “Adequate Yearly Progress” standards for learning. It’s a school that hundreds of students fight – via... Read more »
Center Is Bad for Environmentalism
It has taken me decades to be recognized as an environmental extremist. My “attack” on Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young, a National Rifle Association board member, in Sierra magazine fomented... Read more »
Train’s Full Monty — Coming Soon
Fixing the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s Lobato Trestle is turning out to be more time-consuming than railroad officials predicted last fall. No surprise — any outdoor activity in the... Read more »
N.M. Politician Had Influential Career
Minnie E. Gallegos is being remembered by friends and colleagues this week as a vivacious personality and a key player in northern New Mexico politics for the last four decades.... Read more »
Whose Booze Facts Are ‘Authentic?’
Over the objections of the Santa Fe City Council, state liquor regulators last week approved a full liquor license for the new Super Walmart on Airport Road. The action by... Read more »
Work the Acequias as Lifeblood
It is said that the landscape is an open document to study the past. A landscape dedicated to orchards will be different from that which grows alfalfa or pasture and... Read more »
Letters
Officers Protected Us From Convict I’ve read the May 13 article, “Four Officers Face Termination,” regarding the “Walmart incident” with the Santa Fe police officers and Michael Schaefer and noticed... Read more »
Jet Traffic: Happy Contrails To You
When we moved to the Colorado Plateau 20 years ago, I thought I’d be trading an ocean coast for a pristine Western sky. Instead, I was greeted by a nonstop... Read more »
Fatal Trench Accident Didn’t Need To Happen
Investigators aren’t finished talking to workers and others who might shed light on what happened to make a deep utility trench collapse last week and kill two Las Vegas, N.M.... Read more »
Judge Weighed In On Prom Security
The Transportation Security Administration — the agency that provides airport security in the fight against terrorism — was supposed to be on hand Saturday night to oversee security at the... Read more »
