Dave Maass
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In contexts better left unexplained, staff writer Dave Maass has been called a "tortured genius" by the Tucson Weekly, a "budding Hemingway" by the Arizona Republic, an "intellectual masturbator" by The Inlander, a "super nudge" by The Stranger, "very nice" by Douglas Coupland, and Michael Moore once wrote him a letter of recommendation, which he never submitted anywhere, then misplaced. Maass can be spotted puttering around Santa Fe on a blue scooter with a yorkie mutt strapped to his chest. |
Stories by Dave Maass
political futures
Mix and match the New Mexico politicians with their new pieces of the power pie.
SFR TALK: Human Frailty
When human trafficking came up in the New Mexico Legislature earlier in the 2008 session, victims’ advocates had to tread carefully: State officials were hesitant to get involved in enforcing federal immigration laws. However, as Assistant Attorney General María Sánchez-Gagne explains, the focus of the law on victims, rather than smugglers, motivated the Legislature to back the proposal and, in February, New Mexico became the final border state to establish human trafficking
god complex
Santa Fe’s top teenage-make out spot is now part of the great debate of the separation of church and state.
The city of Santa Fe has teamed up with a group of conservative Utahan legislators to support the Utah Highway Patrol Association’s practice of placing tall, white crosses on state land to honor fallen officers.
Block to the Future
What remains unknown is the full extent of Jerome Block Jr’s malfeasance. For that information, New Mexico will have to wait weeks, if not months. SFR has learned that Secretary of State Mary Herrera’s office is sending Block a letter this week seeking clarification of questionable spending listed in his campaign finance reports. The letter will be the second of its kind this mont
Things to do in Santa Fe When You're Undead
According to a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, a zombie epidemic would overwhelm the city in half a day. Assuming bite-to-zombification takes 45 minutes—the same as snake venom completing a lap through a human circulatory system—a single infection could spread to 45,000 people and leave another 13,000 irrevocably dead within 12 bloody hours.
Land of Confusion
Posing as local voters on Oct. 20, SFR called the clerks’ offices in all of the 13 counties in the district for instructions on this procedure. Four counties—Bernalillo, Colfax, Guadalupe and DeBaca—told SFR voters can’t vote straight party and vote for a candidate in a different party.
Leaked!
PLUS: See which commercial properties are using the most water, as well as how much water Santa Fe city councilors (and SFR’s management) used last summer.
Blockgate extra
A $350 payment made by PRC candidate Jerome Block Jr to the Attorney General’s constituent services coordinator for “mailout assistance” may have been illegal, SFR has discovered.
Playing with Smear
If Karl Rove is George W Bush’s “Turd Blossom,” then that makes Lee Atwater the lump of poop from which Rove flowered. In the ’70s and ’80s, Atwater authored the Republican playbook of smears.
SFR Talk: Bosom Buddy
What do breasts and extraterrestrials have in common? For one, both contributed to the R-rating for the film Species. For another, local Raëlian guide Alaric Balibrera wants to give both more exposure in Santa Fe, figuratively and literally. The Raëlian movement is promoting a woman’s right to bear her chest in public. Balibrera organized a bare-breast demonstration on the Plaza in August
