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Academics, by tradition or by default, tend to be a pursuit carried out with a fair degree of unruliness, management-wise, as management types might say. More creative than disciplined, it tends to attract, or cultivate, cluttered-mind, cluttered-desk types given more to inspiring new generations of scholars and professionals, as well as researching, than marching along predictable lines.
But managers do emerge from our colleges and universities, fleeing the groves of Academe for high-paid jobs in business and industry — to be seen again only at football games and alumni gatherings.
Could this flight-from-campus phenomenon lie behind the chaotic financial and administrative state of The University of New Mexico, from the executive suites to the locker rooms, causing so much hand-wringing ? Or is it mostly a problem resulting from political game-playing, as Gov. Bill Richardson's critics are quick to claim?
The governor, and his hand-picked, readily puntable board of rege ... Read more >>
Editorial: PRC poll bad enough; what's covered up?
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What? "Political flunkies" on the public payroll of the state Public Regulation Commission? The editorial "we" are shocked — shocked, to borrow the immortal phrase of the Claude Rains police-chief character in Casablanca.
The PRC, created in the ... Read more >>
Editorial: Restore food tax? That's a cruel idea
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So into our state's financial crisis marches a task force: 42 civic-minded volunteers chosen by Gov. Bill Richardson to seek ways of balancing a budget that many of our leaders say is $1 billion out of whack — owing, in great part, to special tax fav ... Read more >>
Editorial: New SFCC campus? Not now, please
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Back in the 1980s, when the late Bill Witter was starting the public Santa Fe Community College from scratch, he couldn't have guessed that, someday, the private four-year College of Santa Fe campus might be one his school could share. So the indefat ... Read more >>
Editorial: Well-earned praise for Tony Hillerman
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In so many ways, Tony Hillerman lives on. That's good news not only to the ink-stained wretches he was one of and counted as his friends and fellow writers, but also to his legions of readers — for whom detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are as rea ... Read more >>
Editorial: Well-earned praise for Tony Hillerman
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In so many ways, Tony Hillerman lives on. That's good news not only to the ink-stained wretches he was one of and counted as his friends and fellow writers, but also to his legions of readers — for whom detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are as rea ... Read more >>
Editorial: Could state take cue from MIT cost-cutting?
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The political posturing over our state's finances — what services to cut back, whose jobs to eliminate, now or when someone leaves, and what construction projects to delay or eliminate — has portrayed our governor and many legislators as leaders who' ... Read more >>
Letters to the editor
Debate often better than adjudication
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James Siebert's Nov. 8 My View, "Historic-district suit would hurt our community," correctly states that the city of Santa Fe's proposed lawsuit claiming the power to enforce its historic preservation and land use ordinances on future county, state a ... Read more>>
My view. Reader Op-eds
Claudette Montoya
State employees share work of reducing budget
Mary Ann Crowe
High profile spokespeople for migraine welcome
Marion Seymour
Berlin hope: that all walls may fall
Rabbi Marvin Schwab and Susan Breslauer
Group outraged by Catholic interference in health care
Mary Ray Cate
What would recovery from Western civilization bring
Sally Blakemore
Time gone for limiting reproductive rights
Dr. Donn G. Duncan
Don-t-throw-out-health-system
Kitty Ault
Sun Mountain: Something to be thankful for
Robert Vigil
Reflection: Norteño family's worthwhile struggle for proper education
Richard Ellenberg
Politics of ambush serves party, not county
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