What Is Our Nation But All Of Us? Several groups of citizens packed the June 2 City Council meeting. First up to bat were firefighters, who asked the Council to approve [...] Laura Sanchez \ Jun 12, 2008 Read More
Sky-High And Descending Councilors Pass A Budget With Less Dough For The Balloon Museum Which of these words is not like the others: art, science, history, ballooning? If you concluded that ballooning is a far more limited [...] Laura Sanchez \ May 29, 2008 Read More
Out, Out, Little Green Spot Anti-smoking activists showed up at the May 5 meeting to support Councilor Michael Cadigan’s anti-smoking bill even though it was not on the [...] Laura Sanchez \ May 15, 2008 Read More
Come And Get It! Free Money! No, not you, silly. Not unless you’re a large multi-state developer or a defense contractor.Discussion at the April 21 Council meeting swirled around [...] Laura Sanchez \ May 01, 2008 Read More
This Is Gonna Hurt Bills listed on the agenda at the April 7 City Council meeting took a backseat to city employees, who spoke about their needs [...] Laura Sanchez \ Apr 17, 2008 Read More
Eye Of The Storm While world crises loomed, historic presidential primaries sizzled and trials for courthouse kickbacks stalled, the March 3 Council meeting moseyed along.Councilor Ken Sanchez [...] Laura Sanchez \ Mar 13, 2008 Read More
Heavy Metal The City Says A Sculpture’s Base Weighs Too Much For Civic Plaza The city’s latest public art controversy has nothing to do with style or subject matter. It’s all about weight. And process.In 2006, well-known [...] Laura Sanchez \ Feb 28, 2008 Read More
Warp Speed The snowflakes came down fast, Council President Brad Winter talked even faster, and city councilors cleared the Feb. 4 agenda in two hours, [...] Laura Sanchez \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More
2008: Back To The Future The wilder fringes of the built environment dominated the Jan. 7 City Council meeting, from tents to adobes to very tall cosmetic shells. [...] Laura Sanchez \ Jan 17, 2008 Read More
The Tidds Roll In After boycotting the last meeting, Heights councilors (along with District 1’s Ken Sanchez) showed up on Dec. 17 to bestow a Christmas present [...] Laura Sanchez \ Dec 27, 2007 Read More