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By: Justin Horwath
Jon Ross Barrie looks the part of a patriot. In images on his campaign website, Barrie sports an American flag tie and, for good measure, an American flag lapel pin. From the website, a simple WordPress template, Barrie broadcasts his campaign platform for the US Senate. In a YouTube video, the bespectacled Vietnam veteran says he’s a “citizen activist” who is “kind of like the founding fathers.”]]>
By: Joey Peters
Standing behind a coffee-decorated cart situated in Concrete Jungle’s front patio, a scarf-clad Phil Santos prepares espresso, condensed milk and soda for a concoction he invented, called “Hola Cola.”]]>
By: Scott Shuker
I shall take the virtual pile of press releases, schmooze-generated rumors and assertive investigation of those in the know and run them through the journalistic distillery, publishing a monthly update to make Reader’s Digest or People magazine aficionados nod in mild approval.]]>
By: Wren Abbott
In what some are calling a politically motivated decision, the New Mexico Environment Department green-lighted a uranium mine’s permit despite unanswered questions about environmental contamination.]]>
By: Wren Abbott
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center and two nonprofit environmental groups are trying to get Rio Grande Resources Corp. to clean up uranium waste at the Mt. Taylor mine near Grants.]]>
By: Alex De Vore
Santa Fe musicians are releasing new albums all the time, even as the CD goes the way of the dodo. Rather than continue to let the discs pile up on the floors and in the cabinets of the SFR office, I figured it was time to listen to a few.]]>
By: Wren Abbott
The Academy of Technology and the Classics is an academically distinguished school recently beset with problems. Its new principal, Susan Lumley, is an award-winning school administrator facing down lingering questions about her track record. Will these two be a perfect match or a total disaster?]]>
By: Wren Abbott
SFPS' architect for Agua Fria school construction missed the budget bus. Reputable contractors say there's not enough money to do the job.

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By: Alexa Schirtzinger
From his office atop Museum Hill, David Rohr, the creative director for the Museum Resources Division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, spends his days designing everything from magazine articles to websites.]]>
By: Wren Abbott
Riding public transportation is habit-forming; at least, that’s what its advocates hope. There’s the opportunity to multitask and reduce stress, not to mention the potential for napping, American Public Transportation Association spokesman Mantill Williams says.]]>
By: Zane Fischer
Santa Fe's new network of trails is a beautiful thing. Except when it's not.]]>
Combined reporting, the system of corporate taxation that requires companies to report not just in-state income, but all income on their New Mexico tax returns, became a hot-button issue this election cycle.]]>
By: Andrew Thompson
Last month, SFR published a report of the top 10 companies that have Santa Fe connections and have received federal defense money. The No. 10 spot was awarded to Mesa Photonics But Mesa President David Bomse, while acknowledging the contracts, says he’s not a war-profiteer, and that his business “has been hurt by this war.”]]>
By: Andrew Thompson
Last week, the Santa Fe Food Policy Council took its first field trip down to the southern edge of the county to see how farmers are faring. They’re faring, council members say. But barely.]]>
By: Alexa Schirtzinger
“Hamstrung,” “underfunded,” “very hard to contact” and plagued by “ideological barriers”? Just another day in New Mexico’s medical cannabis program. With more than 2,000 total patients enrolled as of July 6, and only 11 certified medical marijuana producers (each limited to 95 plants), there remains a constant dearth of reliable medical pot.]]>
By: Corey Pein
Picture Mr. Rogers stumbling into a James Bond flick. That basically captures the situation of Santa Fe’s affable mayor, David Coss, who just found himself at the center of an international affair involving a corrupt majority-Muslim state, its American Jewish lobbyist, a dead KGB general, Arianna Huffington and British Petroleum.]]>
By: Corey Pein
Former Thornburg Mortgage spokeswoman Suzanne O’Leary Lopez has landed a big job with one of the world’s largest PR firms, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide.]]>
By: Corey Pein
$1million a day is how fast New Mexico’s unemployment insurance trust fund is getting drained, according to the Legislative Finance Committee. The LFC’s 2010 “Post-Session Review,&rd]]>