Too Conventional Dems Play It Safe As those things go, John Kerry's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention wasn't bad—his bizarre case of “chin sweat” notwithstanding. No one, [...] Greg Payne \ Aug 05, 2004 Read More
Breaking With Convention Another Sorry Chapter In The Albuquerque Convention Center Debacle If you're a high-ranking city official in the midst of hiring an employee to oversee a couple of multi-million dollar a year contracts [...] Greg Payne \ Jul 29, 2004 Read More
The Things People Say And Do Compliments And Scorn Come In All Colors When it comes to doling out compliments to city bureaucrats, I'll be the first to admit that I tend to be more Simon [...] Greg Payne \ Jul 22, 2004 Read More
Michael Moore'S True Believers Fahrenheit 9/11 Stirs Up Anti-Bush Crowd, Or Was It Just A Glucose High Fueled By Skittles? There probably won't be any impact on my daughter because she attended an early afternoon screening of Fahrenheit 9/11 on the Fourth of [...] Greg Payne \ Jul 15, 2004 Read More
The Show That Never Ends Random Musings On The Week That Was Last week, political blogmeister Joe Monahan (www.joemonahan.com) offered some commentary on three recent votes by Congresswoman Heather Wilson and how those votes might [...] Greg Payne \ Jul 08, 2004 Read More
Talk About Taxation Without Representation Would The Nation'S Founders Have Imagined A $4.1 Trillion National Debt? Ahh … the Fourth of July! In 1776, our Founding Fathers declared independence from the British monarchy and an end to “taxation without [...] Greg Payne \ Jul 01, 2004 Read More
Lex Luthor'S Legal System Time To Demand More Accountability From The Judiciary Reforming the state's judicial system is a hot topic no matter where you turn these days. Whether certain state legislators, journalists, trial lawyers [...] Greg Payne \ Jun 24, 2004 Read More
Buying Blow From The Bench Brennan'S Bust Exposes Clueless Local Media Where would the Chief Justice of our State District Court buy cocaine? Tony Montana might have the answer, but a 57-year-old judge? Where [...] Greg Payne \ Jun 17, 2004 Read More
Primary Postmortem The Winners, Losers And In-Betweens An election is just past and summer is here in full force, but before we fully shift our focus to the wildfires blazing [...] Greg Payne \ Jun 10, 2004 Read More
Bizarro World Down Is Up In The Duke City “Far off in outer space exists the strangest, wackiest planet in the universe … it is the square Bizarro World!” So began an [...] Greg Payne \ May 13, 2004 Read More