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Lest our mayor and City Council remain under the thrall of Hollywood and the thrill of being commercial land-developers through some members' insistence on putting their fellow Santa Feans $35 million in debt for a Railyard movie theater, let 'em look back East ...
... to New London, Conn., where city leaders condemned homes and other private property so they and some developers could put up a gleaming new "urban village" to be anchored by the mighty Pfizer pharmceutical firm. It would feature a whole new commercial district, replete with restaurants, shops, marinas and other complements to the drug company's research center.
The city's out-with-unfancy-homes, up-with-moneymaking scheme led to legal proceedings that reached (ta-da!) the Supreme Court — where, figured fairness buffs and legal scholars alike, our nation's highest tribunal would declare that you can only take private property for public purposes — roads, courthouses and the like.
Fairness, schmairness, said ... Read more >>
Editorial: Taos mass arrests take punishment over the top
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The news that 32 people were arrested and most carted off to jail, accused of causing a disruption in Judge Sam Sánchez's Taos courtroom is unsettling.
Disrupting the court is uncalled for, but a mass arrest, with no distinguishing between guilty ... Read more >>
Editorial: Outside consultants as UNM salvation?
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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-des ... 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 >>
Letters to the editor
Working poor will suffer from food tax
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It's appalling that the state would even consider reinstating a food tax. I moved here from Tennessee last year, a state that has a regressive tax on both food and clothing, which is hard enough on what's left of the middle class, but is devastating ... Read more>>
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