Drastic Times Call for Sober Measures
My heart goes out to the families involved in last week's horrific drunken-driving accident. As an emergency physician, I am exposed to the ravages of alcohol-involved injuries and fatalities on a daily basis, and I see the destruction alcohol abuse causes in families and our community.
(Sunday, July 05, 2009)
Letters
Ranger All Wrong
(Wednesday, July 01, 2009)
Rio Grande Gorge â
As the fifth-largest state and with incredible biodiversity, it should come as no surprise that New Mexico attracts birders from around the world who come to enjoy some of our favorite birding spots. This summer is a perfect time to visit or revisit an area renowned for its impressive bird habitat: the Upper Rio Grande Gorge in Taos County.
(Wednesday, July 01, 2009)
Editorial
Another weekend night in Santa Fe. Another DWI wreck with multiple fatalities. Eerily, Sunday's collision that killed four teenagers happened very near the site of the crash three years ago that wiped out all but one of a family of six, plus the driver. Like the 2006 crash, police say the most recent tragedy was caused by a wrong-way driver and, again, the driver is suspected of being drunk; it will take some time before a blood test confirms that.
(Wednesday, July 01, 2009)
Letters To the Editor Several Glaring Errors Story on Glorieta Trail
(Sunday, June 28, 2009)
Sen. Bingaman: Support Genuine Health Care Reform
On Nov. 4, Rio Arriba voters flocked to the polls to vote for meaningful health care change. America's system of employer-based private insurance has never worked for us.
(Sunday, June 28, 2009)
Get Officials To Make Good on Promises
On Wednesday, the Santa Fe City Council passed a version of the Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District Ordinance (NCODO) that was a very small step for neighborhoods and a large step for bureaucracy.
(Sunday, June 28, 2009)
Worst Might Be Yet To Come
Throughout the economic downturn, the experts have been predicting that New Mexico — and Santa Fe — would be spared the worst of it. Our housing market hadn't seen the excesses in price and turnover that characterized the housing bubble California and Nevada; our fairly diverse economy isn't heavily reliant on manufacturing or high finance and in any case is healthily subsidized by federal spending; employment would fall, but not so steeply as in the Rust Belt. ...
(Sunday, June 28, 2009)