As its fate hinges on the Legislative session, now is the time for College of Santa Fe to prove its cultural value, not to cut its valuable programs in a misguided strategy to cut the wrong costs.

Sometimes living with an adolescent seems like a continual hostage-negotiation situation, only with tears instead of tear gas and chomping gum instead of loaded guns.

 We can spend the coming year whining and moaning like a cranky columnist or we can take some concrete steps as individuals to affect the change we’d like to see in the world.

My friend Nell has always struck me as the kind of person who, if standing in line at the airport, might have told Mother Teresa to “hurry it up already.” I don’t know if it’s because she was raised in New York or survived the truth serum ’60s, but Nell never has a problem telling people what she thinks.

Conservatives think the election results prove conservatism is in trouble. Actually, conservatism is fine. It’s the Republican Party that’s in trouble.

Councilor Ortiz and Mayor Coss have radically different views on how to handle the economy. Their tremendous clash in last week's Finance Committee meeting was...postponed until December.

Jeremy Parfitt is a longtime Santa Fe resident, a graduate of St. John’s College, a custom-bicycle-wheel builder, a small-business owner and a part-time bloviator from an anarcho-libertarian perspective.
 

Santa Fe City Councilor Matt Ortiz last week injected himself, McCain-style, into the center of the economic crisis. But rather than suspending anything and rolling up his sleeves, he left town with his family and had fellow Councilor Rebecca Wurzburger drop his resolution in his decisive and commanding absence.

Soul searching and foot battery in NYC.

The transit tax will yield big dividends for the public.

Alfred Herrera is an Española city councilor and chairman of the North Central Regional Transit District.