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Senator Rod Adair opines on the Jackson case and columnist Zane Fischer poses as a punching bag.
Zane's World
We know the lucky winners in our municipal elections are going on to grueling and thankless jobs in local politics, but what about the arguably luckier losers? Should they vanish back into the fabric of the city or is it possible that their respective campaigns have revealed new potential roles in government, activism and business?
Daddy Needs a Drink
I recently took my son London along to the gym. After I had inelegantly completed my routine and he had demoed all the machines that would not land him in traction, we hit the locker room. He was giddy at the exclusive father-son time in an exotic locale where adults wearing hiked-up shorts throw medicine balls and slip on booties to skate back and forth on polished wood.
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.
Pipe Nightmares
Despite the rash of class-action lawsuits that have required Kitec manufacturer, Ipex Inc., and contractors who installed it to reimburse residents and re-plumb entire communities—a Nevada court ordered one builder to pay $27 million—residents of troubled Santa Fe development Villa de la Paz haven’t seen a dime.
Big Busser
Despite the ongoing budget squeeze, the City of Santa Fe’s transit division plans to spend more than $100,000 to install surveillance cameras on its bus fleet. The cameras would be paid for with a combination of federal grants, including so-called economic “stimulus” funds through the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Briefs: March 3
New Energy Economy's push for greenhouse emission caps and signs from...out there.
7 Days
Unfilled jobs, government hucksters, and the potential tax on cigs and drinking while driving plus, for good measure, some foods.
Indicators: March 3
73 percent of New Mexico taxpayers who make less than $50,000 a year, according to Internal Revenue Service data from 2007. Very few earn more than $200,000. So, why do those who earn less give proportionally more to charitable causes?
