Darya Peterson, 25, teaches people how to stick up for themselves—unless they’re already too good at sticking up for themselves, in which case she teaches them how to cool it. Peterson is a program coordinator and instructor at IMPACT Personal Safety.

It happens nearly every day: An inmate at the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility is targeted for deportation by federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents. Without proof of a crime, ICE places holds on inmates it suspects of being in the country without a proper visa.

As SFR went to press, the business newswires buzzed with word that French drug company Sanofi-Aventis was offering $18.4 billion to buy one of Santa Fe’s largest employers, Genzyme Corporation.

SFR readers will remember that earlier this year, Santa Fe anti-wireless activist Arthur Firstenberg sued his neighbor Raphaela Monribot, claiming her use of an iPhone and wirelessinternet aggravated his “electrical hypersensitivity."

At noon on July 4, as America celebrated its freedom, armed officers of the state escorted Eric Raymond Buckley into the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility. The easygoing 36-year-old acupuncturist wasn’t in jail because he’d shot, stabbed or driven drunk. He hadn’t run a red light or raised his voice. He hadn’t even gotten caught sneaking a handful of granola from the bins at Whole Foods.

As much as Santa Feans love their “buy local” mantra, international trade is crucial to New Mexico’s economy. Foreign-owned companies employ one in 50 New Mexico workers, according to the most recent available figures from the US Department of Commerce.

Both major party candidates for governor are running as corruption-fighters, promising a new era of accountability and transparency. Neither is off to a promising start.

Some call it a national security threat. But Santa Fe’s most famous former spy has only raves for The Washington Post’s report on “Top Secret America,” a two-year investigation into the growth of the private intelligence industry since 9.11.

Many Santa Feans could stand to take a cooking class or two, according to Alex Valdez, the chief executive officer of Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center.

Two months after losing the June primary election to Republican Tom Mullins of Farm-ington, the Iraq war veteran-turned anti-war protester-turned-Tea Party organizer-and-Congressional candidate Adam Kokesh has started a new gig: talk radio host.