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SFR Talk: The Real Haiti
Physician Gregory Schneider, a professor at St. John’s College, has traveled with St. John’s students to Haiti on spring break trips since 2007. Last year he founded Project Treehouse, a nonprofit that aims to provide health care and political support in Haiti.
SFR Talk: Money Man
Before he came to Santa Fe, City of Santa Fe Finance Director David Millican spent 18 years as the finance director for the city of Fremont, Calif. Here are his thoughts on Santa Fe, the economy and related topics.
Yes, Please
The Yes Men invade Santa Fe and help the art institute, show their movie, offer a primer on the threat of corporatocracy and prank everyone, including SFR, Intel, Qwest, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bechtel, the Independent Petroleum Association and the City of Santa Fe. Also, they're going hiking.
Girly Bits
In 1998, Eve Ensler published The Vagina Monologues, and suddenly a word that many viewed as vulgar became a powerful—and positive—force. This year’s V-Day performance in Santa Fe—a performance of Ensler’s new collection of monologues, I am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World—benefits the Santa Fe Mountain Center.
SFR Talk: Caveat Weatherman
Mark Ronchetti doesn't just forecast the percentage chance for rain, he also forecasts the chance for wrong. Ronchetti's "bust potential" gets put the test with every storm, as well as the occasional presidential candidate and errant news anchor.
SFR Talk: Bye Bye Love
Owner of Santa Fe and Albuquerque’s Walther Family Law, Gretchen Walther has practiced family law for 14 years and has conducted hundreds of divorces. Walther is married and has never been divorced.
SFR Talk: Pulitzer Revealed
Tesuque resident James McGrath Morris’ 576-page biography of Joseph Pulitzer, Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, reveals new information and insights about the life of the man with one of America’s most recognized names. Morris gives a reading and book signing this week to coincide with the book’s publication.
SFR Talk: Numero Uno
Barbara Salas is the first woman to be appointed chief of the 130-year-old Santa Fe Fire Department. She previously broke similar ground as the first female fire marshal. Now that she’s the top dog at Fire Station No. 1, we asked Salas to give SFR her own list of No. 1s.
Writing His World
Native American literature would not be what it is today without the works of N Scott Momaday. The Kiowa author’s first novel, House Made of Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969. It is an unflinching examination of Native Americans’ alienation and sadness, as unapologetic in its honesty as it is unconventional in its literary format. This week, SFR talks to the author about Native American culture, his career as a writer and what comes next.
SFR Talk: Group Think
Executive Director of Think New Mexico—a Santa Fe-based think tank—Fred Nathan is a self-described “recovering attorney.” Since Nathan founded Think New Mexico in 1999, the group has worked to repeal the food tax, provide universal kindergarten and create the Strategic Water Reserve. Its current campaign is to reform government ethics.
