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Wednesday, April 20,2011
Features

Big Picture

Earth Now showcases environmental art, then and now.

Rani Molla
Environmental art is hard to peg down; its definition is as uncertain as the future of the environment. Just as one person’s reusable grocery bag is another’s mass transit, one person’s mammoth (often destructive) land art is another’s recycled art materials.
Wednesday, April 20,2011
Features

Green Samaritans

Class arms environmental crusaders

Wren Abbott, Alexa Schirtzinger
On April 14, a group of concerned citizens descended upon the Santa Fe home of Bette Booth and scoured it for clues with the meticulousness of detective Adrian Monk.
Wednesday, April 20,2011
Features

If You Build It

Santa Feans have no excuse for not building green

Wren Abbott
It may seem unlikely in the City Different, but green building educators Robin Dorrell and Dan Clavio still run into the mistaken perception that sustainable building designs are “eccentric.”
Wednesday, April 20,2011
Features

Ode to the Urban Coyote

For their wildness and resiliency

Laura Paskus
I wish I could recall the first time I heard those sounds of madness in the night. I’m sure they tore a hole in my understanding of all things simple and orderly. A cacophony of blood and wantonness. Coyotes.
Wednesday, April 20,2011
Features

Turning Green

Ready to become a true tree hugger? Here’s how

Call yourself a tree hugger? There’s a lot more to the title than a perfectly arced Frisbee toss, inattention to hygiene and thrift store outfits. In the interest of helping you achieve some real Earth Day cred, SFR offers a partial list of the skills you’ll need to be a real hippie—and how to master them.
Wednesday, April 13,2011
Features

Taxy Turvy

It’s time to face facts about the failures of US economic policy

For the past decade, we have doubled down on the theory of supply-side economics with the tax cuts sponsored by President George W Bush in 2001 and 2003, which President Obama has agreed to continue for two years. You would think that whether this grand experiment worked would be settled after three decades
Wednesday, April 6,2011
Features

The Freshman

Santa Fe Community College has a plan for reversing first-year student dropout rates—but can a local institution overcome a national epidemic?

Alexa Schirtzinger
Based on data SFCC reports to the US Department of Education, of the approximately 6,600 students who enrolled at SFCC in fall 2010, only half are expected to return for a second year. Even fewer will successfully earn a degree—a discouraging trend at the only public community college serving Santa Fe.
Wednesday, March 30,2011
Features

Eco-Assault!

Fresh attacks on environmental regulations threaten New Mexico’s future

Laura Paskus
In the late 1980s, people living in the border town of Sunland Park, NM, had a big problem on their hands—and on their laundry lines, too.
Wednesday, March 23,2011
Features

Home in the World

A fatal diagnosis leads to an unexpected transformation

Emily Rapp
My son’s body lacks hexosaminidase A, an enzyme critical for brain development, and his brain is, as they say in the neurology world, “devastated.” Before he dies, Ronan will become paralyzed, lose his sight, his hearing and his sense of touch.
Wednesday, March 9,2011
Features

No Kidding

Child Care in Santa Fe is Growing–Out of Reach

Wren Abbott
The state has instituted ambitious changes over the past few years to the way child care is regulated. Oversight of providers by the state Children, Youth and Families Department has increased, with background checks mandatory for all adults who come in contact with kids.vBut the resulting shift has created fewer options for affordable child care
 
 
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