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Wednesday, September 28,2011
Local News

Art Kickstart

Indicators: Sept. 28

Joey Peters
Nationwide, arts-related jobs will grow just as quickly as the entire labor force over the next eight years, according to a recent US Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Much of that growth should come to Santa Fe, which already has the second-highest percentage of artists in the labor force, according to a 2008 study by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Wednesday, September 28,2011
Local News

Race to 2012

GOP strategizes about winning over Latino voters

Joey Peters
Most Latinos are conservative and don’t know it. That’s the message many emphasized at the Hispanic Leadership Network’s Rebuilding the American Dream conference held in Albuquerque Sept. 23 and 24—the latest in the bipartisan battle for Latino support.
Wednesday, September 28,2011
Features

Mudslung

Tales from the other side of New Mexico’s corruption epidemic

Joey Peters
On Aug. 11, a dozen members of the press crammed into a Public Regulation Commission meeting to follow a juicy lead. Jerome Block Jr.—the embattled commissioner facing allegations of charging $8,000 worth of gas to his government-issued credit card in six months, stealing a car and misusing public campaign funds—had been in the news for weeks. Block’s fellow commissioners were set to remove him as PRC vice chairman, leading to speculations of either his impeachment or resignation. Block had also been hammered in the headlines for missing one-third of his PRC meetings. Predictably, he was a no-show.
Wednesday, September 21,2011
Local News

Cashed

Federal review finds big problems at the NM Dept. of Health

Joey Peters
Nearly two years after Bob Ortiz first raised concerns about how one of the state’s largest departments handles its finances, he’s finally getting a response. In July, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service conducted a financial management review, similar to an audit, of the New Mexico Department of Health. The analysis found accounting errors in the DOH’s Women, Infants and Children program—to the tune of $500,000 in fiscal year 2008.
Wednesday, September 21,2011
Local News

Poli-tricks

In Brief

Joey Peters
As lawmakers continue their redistricting work in the special session, both parties are getting fed up.
Wednesday, September 21,2011
Local News

Fed Up

In Brief

Joey Peters
After City Councilor Patti Bushee kept hearing horror stories involving drug deals, burglary and loitering from her constituents, she decided to hold a public meeting about it. Roughly 40 people, including cops, showed up to the Sept. 12 meeting, which focused on crime near the Railyard [news, Sept. 14, “Relapse”].
Wednesday, September 21,2011
Local News

Slow Connection

Mayor Coss on Broadband

Joey Peters
During a recent interview with SFR, Mayor David Coss expressed frustration at the lack of citywide broadband service in Santa Fe.
Wednesday, September 14,2011
Local News

Out to Dry

Indicators: Sept. 14

Joey Peters
Predictions of a drying Colorado River Basin come often. In 2008, a study published in Water Resources Research predicted that the basin’s two biggest reservoirs would dry up by 2021.
Wednesday, September 14,2011
Local News

Relapse

Hard drug-related crime is on the rise in northern NM

Joey Peters
The 1st Judicial District encompasses Santa Fe County and Rio Arriba County, which has the highest per capita heroin overdose rate in the nation. District Judge Stephen Pfeffer says most of the drug-related search warrants he issues occur in Rio Arriba County. He says he signs roughly two drug-related warrants a month.
Wednesday, September 14,2011
Features

In With the New

City Council hopefuls challenge the status quo

Joey Peters
Though city elections won’t be held until March, candidates for the four open Santa Fe City Council seats are already signing up for what promises to be a horse race. So far, District 1, where Councilor Patti Bushee faces re-election, has been drawing the most attention.
 
 
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