The designers at local firm Anagr.am, a team that includes former SFR opinion columnist Zane Fischer, didn’t have Santa Fe Mayor David Coss in mind when they devised a hypothetical Santa Fe metro map, but they may as well have.

On March 17, approximately 800 delegates from around New Mexico packed the halls of Albuquerque’s Crowne Plaza Hotel for the state Republican Party’s preprimary convention.

A little over a year ago, Alicia Gonzales-Lamonda was arrested for shoplifting and other charges. She entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to a year on electronic monitoring. As it turns out, that may have been the least of her worries.

As I once had to explain to a semi-hysterical caller to SFR, we regularly report on political corruption, burglary, homicide, rape and more. Just because we run a story about something doesn’t mean we condone it. Apropos, burglary, homicide, rape, etc. collectively form the subject of this week’s Big Picture: crime.

At 18, Nick Montoya, a member of the Taos Pueblo, exuded health, he says. But that changed after a year of duty in Vietnam, where he was exposed to Agent Orange. Since 1969, Montoya has dealt with post-traumatic stress, alcoholism, depression, diabetes, kidney disease, a heart attack and, last September, open-heart surgery.

Gingrich dances to "Rocket Man", Romney OK with Limbaugh "slut" comment, and Martinez sides with Walmart.

“Frankly, I don’t think that continuing down the current path with the board increases your chance of having a long-term relationship with Santa Fe Public Schools,” SFPS Board of Education Vice President Glenn Wikle wrote Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez in a February 2011 email. “I’m concerned that it would have the opposite effect.”

Two years ago, Ernestine Morales spoke to SFR about her fear amid rumors of cuts in the state’s Medicaid-funded Developmental Disabilities Waiver. Morales’ daughter Monique was born with microcephaly, a neurological disorder that has kept her 44-year-old brain at the mental capacity of a 2-year-old. For the past decade, Morales has been taking care of Monique in her Albuquerque home under the DD Waiver for a monthly government stipend.

Chris Eyre has been involved with nine feature films since his 1998 debut Smoke Signals, yet the indie sensation, which was marketed as the first feature film written, directed and produced by Native Americans and which won a plethora of awards and acclaim, will likely remain his best-known work. In January, Eyre was named chairman of Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s Moving Image Arts Department, a big win for a college that nearly shut its doors for good three years ago. Now, Eyre is on a mission to make the department, in his words, a “world-class film school.” SFR sat down with Eyre to discuss his new position. This interview has been condensed from his comments.

If a recent tussle between a local engineer and officials from Los Alamos National Laboratory shows anything, it’s that one lab’s error is another man’s dilemma.