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Tuesday, October 2,2012
Local News

Booze Cruisers

It’s not easy being a local liquor store— especially when state cops come knocking

Justin Horwath
Five months ago, on the night of Cinco de Mayo, 56-year-old Daniel Gomez stumbled into Owl’s Liquors.
Tuesday, October 2,2012
Local News

Fringe Benefit

Santa Fe’s community workforce agreement: worker protection or union windfall?

Joey Peters
Eight months ago, when the Santa Fe City Council unanimously passed new rules mandating that contractors for large city construction projects work closely with organized labor, it stayed largely under the radar.
Tuesday, October 2,2012
Local News

Free Money!

(Sort of.)

Alexa Schirtzinger
Here’s a news flash: There are no super PACs in New Mexico.
Tuesday, October 2,2012
Local News

Aspen Glow

If this is the twilight of our forests, you’d better get out and play in them

Alexa Schirtzinger
If you happened to venture outside the city this past weekend, you would have come upon fall’s breathtaking performance: acres of aspen trees fading from green to yellow and gold as the autumn chill creeps down from the mountains.
Tuesday, September 25,2012
Local News

NMF’ed Up

A scandal raises a fundamental question: Does New Mexico really need a finance authority?

Justin Horwath
Last month, scandal erupted at the New Mexico Finance Authority.
Tuesday, September 25,2012
Local News

School Politics

Online-only schools are education reform’s next flashpoint

Joey Peters
Virtual charter schools, which allow kids to learn online from home, may be the wave of the future in a rural state like New Mexico.
Tuesday, September 25,2012
Local News

Rolling Piedra

Growing pains on the city’s newest trail

Mia Rose Carbone
Just outside of the heart of Santa Fe, the Dale Ball trails wind up and into the foothills.
Tuesday, September 25,2012
Local News

Capital Expense

When it comes to political spending, Santa Fe County knows how to make a buck.

Alexa Schirtzinger
In the world of campaign finance, political action committees, or PACs, are key players—and Santa Fe County’s two partisan PACs lead the state in combined fundraising and spending.
Tuesday, September 18,2012
Local News

Mike Check

Transforming St. Michael’s Drive, one pop-up beer garden at a time

Alexa Schirtzinger
Close your eyes and imagine walking down St. Michael’s Drive.
Tuesday, September 18,2012
Local News

Risk of Ruin

The Downs at Albuquerque struggles to live up to its side of a controversial lease

Joey Peters
On a sunny Saturday in September, grooms use hoses to wash approximately 1,290 horses. Dirty water streams down the middle of the road, just a few feet from where manure spills out of concrete bins.
 
 
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