Top Stories Of 2007 Why Settle For Last Year’s News? This being a forward-looking, progressive publication, I decided to review the top stories of 2007. Why rehash what you already know about 2006? [...] Jim Scarantino \ Jan 04, 2007 Read More
Christmas Flu The Good News: It’s Contagious The young man emerged from the bushes behind the Diamond Shamrock station on Central Avenue. He shivered violently. The temperature hadn’t climbed out [...] Jim Scarantino \ Dec 21, 2006 Read More
Tattooed Christians Fishers Of Dudes M88 may be the biggest radio station you never heard of. And they’re playing to a huge audience that, likewise, may be completely [...] Jim Scarantino \ Dec 07, 2006 Read More
The Streetcar Railroad, Episode Ii: My Developer Is Better Than Your Developer When we last rode the Trolley Named Folly, Mayor Martin Chavez and City Council President Martin Heinrich hit us with a massive tax [...] Jim Scarantino \ Nov 30, 2006 Read More
The Streetcar Railroad Have We Got A Deal For You! If you are willing to ride the bus up and down Central for $10,000, you can help save Albuquerque a couple hundred million [...] Jim Scarantino \ Nov 23, 2006 Read More
“All War Is Terrorism” A Conversation With Mark Rudd Of The Weather Underground On Violence, The Fbi, Che Guevara And A Palestinian Named Jesus In “The Real Side” ["Now Starring in the People’s Republic of Albuquerque!" Oct. 26-Nov. 1], I wrote about the curious coincidence of Albuquerque [...] Jim Scarantino \ Nov 16, 2006 Read More Mark Rudd, 2006
Staying The Course Is Not A Strategy Democrats, We’re Talking To You The Iraq war has been very, very good to Democrats. So it’s time they stuck their necks out for the troops. Face it, [...] Jim Scarantino \ Nov 09, 2006 Read More
Now Starring In The People's Republic Of Albuquerque! Introducing Our City's Radial Celebs Albuquerque must exert some magnetic force on aging radicals. We attracted Mark Rudd of the Weather Underground, the group famous for bombing the [...] Jim Scarantino \ Oct 26, 2006 Read More
Democrats, The Party Of Peace? If The Dems Regain Control Of Congress, Will They Just Be Another War Party? Those were hard days opposing the invasion of Iraq. Millions marched for peace, and still George W. Bush ignored us. But we’ve easily [...] Jim Scarantino \ Oct 12, 2006 Read More
The Tragedy Of Drunk Driving Touches Us All In New Mexico, we’ve developed our own way of testing the “six degrees of separation” theory. Any person can be connected to any [...] Jim Scarantino \ Oct 05, 2006 Read More