On Nov. 3, the city’s planning commission will consider a proposal to eliminate (technically, “reduce by 100 percent”) residential development impact fees for two years. The plan’s sponsors, City Councilors Rebecca Wurzburger and Matt Ortiz, tout it as a way to bolster Santa Fe’s faltering construction industry.

Mayor David Coss spent most of his Oct. 19 State of the City address pushing a $30 million bond proposal slated to go before voters in March’s city elections. Coss bills it as the “Opportunity and Quality of Life Bond,” which encompasses 10 city projects including broadband infrastructure, solar energy investment and public park improvements.

If the JSC’s budget remains the same next fiscal year, commission employees will be forced to take two weeks of unpaid leave.

Occupy Wall Street has made corporate greed into a rallying cry with a simple solution: If government won’t act to get money out of politics, we will—by redirecting our own (albeit scarce) dollars. In reviewing executive compensation at the biggest public companies, SFR found that the best way to vote with our dollars is by doing what mothers have always said: Turn off the TV!

Not long after Pamela Engstrom resigned as principal of Albuquerque’s El Camino Real Charter School, her husband, Anders, requested public documents on the education credentials of a few prominent New Mexico Public Education Department officials.

Gov. Susana Martinez doesn’t have much to show from a special redistricting session that she packed with an ambitious agenda. But one thing she did get was a capital outlay bill, albeit at less than half the size she originally wanted.

To some, the Public Regulation Commission is best known for being cozy with the companies it regulates. So it might have come as a surprise when the PRC’s Insurance Division rejected a proposed 9.9 percent rate increase from health insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield on Oct. 11.

Occupy Wall Street is more than a protest: It’s democracy.

Santa Fe contractor Debbie Shapiro recently helped clients insulate an attic and install water catchment gutters to increase their home’s energy efficiency.

“The revolution will not be televised. It will be on the internet.”