Letter America Dear Doctor Guy, My friend recently stopped taking my calls because I’m dating her ex-boyfriend, but they broke up like over two years ago. I don’t know what to do.—Helpless Hottie ... More
Last week, local dailies and international newswires broke the news that a court-appointed trustee in Thornburg Mortgage’s ongoing bankruptcy case had alleged a “multi-faceted conspiracy” by former executives to defraud the company and its creditors of millions of dollars.
Confusion at the courthouse and making sense of Santa Fe's low voter turn out.
Within a month of becoming president of the Santa Fe-based Permaculture Credit Union, Don Sarich had his first encounter with a skeptical government regulator. “One of the regulators said to me, ‘Don’t worry, you can get a job somewhere else because we’re going to shut you down.’ That’s a true quote,” Sarich says. “I thought, ‘Now I have to prove you wrong.’”
Despite the ongoing budget squeeze, the City of Santa Fe’s transit division plans to spend more than $100,000 to install surveillance cameras on its bus fleet. The cameras would be paid for with a combination of federal grants, including so-called economic “stimulus” funds through the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
73 percent of New Mexico taxpayers who make less than $50,000 a year, according to Internal Revenue Service data from 2007. Very few earn more than $200,000. So, why do those who earn less give proportionally more to charitable causes?
Liberal critics have dismissed the Tea Party as “astroturf”—a front for old-guard corporate Republicans hoping to derail Obama’s domestic agenda while poisoning the national debate with subtle racism. It may indeed have begun as hype, but even outsiders now acknowledge the Tea Party’s Pinocchio-like transformation from an imitation grassroots movement to the genuine article.
There is no more frequent reminder of Santa Fe’s lack of recognition for bicyclists than the experience of sitting at an intersection waiting for a red light to change.
Often, it never does.
An update on the Wi-Fi...rstenberg case and the potential fate of Sen. Brian Egolf's local banking bill during the legislative special session.
What’ll it take to get banks lending again? When throwing billions of dollars their way didn’t work, President Barack Obama tried publicly chastising executives. Still, no dice. A regulatory crackdown makes it harder for community banks—those most likely to extend credit to local small businesses—to lend.
