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Getting the facts straight on domestic violence, getting the resources straight on homeless shelters and the argument over whether columnist Zane Fischer is smart or stupid.
Zane's World
Here’s how you can tell the truth about wages in Santa Fe: No one who is against the living wage would ever agree to work for a rate as low as the living wage. They’ll say it’s economics. But we can go ahead and call it hypocrisy.
Daddy Needs a Drink
Earlier this fall, my wife Lala and I had told Poppy she needed to do something active—take hip-hop dance, join a gym, jazzercise, her choice—and surprisingly she went postal on us and up and joined the cross country team. In my family, you only ran if you were chasing a ball or being chased by my dad and his wooden spoon of tough love.
Attack of the Right Wing Nuts
In April 2006, with the approval ratings of President George W Bush plummeting, his senior political advisor, Karl Rove, began discussing a plan to turn things around. His strategy: Attack progressive organizations that were registering low-income people to vote and helping them fight corporate power—and claim it was about voter fraud.
SFR Talk: King of the Hill
Cody Sheppard, the ski patrol director at Ski Santa Fe, grew up in the tropics, but—as the Texans like to say—he got here as fast as he could. After learning to ski back in the 1970s, during college at St. John’s, Sheppard took up ski patrolling. He’s been doing it ever since, and he’s psyched for what looks like a promising ski season.
The Honor is Yours
It may be the most important local official you don’t get to vote for (at least not right away)—a person who can ruin lives with the thwack of a gavel. At 8:30 am on Nov. 5, a select group of 17 men and women will meet at the courthouse on Catron Street in Santa Fe to evaluate the candidates to replace retiring 1st Judicial District Judge James Hall.
Back to Nature
The list of things that we forego in a recession—pedicures, pearls and the occasional mortgage—does not include alternative medicine. In fact, herbal supplement sales—along with yoga studios, acupuncture clinics and massage therapy—have proven remarkably resilient in the face of the recession.
Briefs: Nov. 4
Nuclear earthquakes, Joe Shirley and energy efficiency.
7 Days
Tax increases, lottery increases, financial corruption increases, pessimism increases, but at least Heather Wilson isn't running for Governor.
