Melt Down At the June 20 meeting, city councilors braced for a session running into early morning, but a Democratic walkout cleared the chamber before [...] Laura Sanchez \ Jun 30, 2005 Read More
Steppin' In It Steppin' In It At the June 6 meeting, councilors passed a 30-day ban on fireworks in the Bosque as well as open burning throughout the city. [...] Laura Sanchez \ Jun 16, 2005 Read More
The Fizzle Of The Freedom Fries Over two years ago when France opposed the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. House of Representative bitch-slapped those art-loving, philosophy-spouting, Gauloise-smoking food fetishists [...] Laura Sanchez \ Jun 02, 2005 Read More
Give Us Another Tool At the May 16 meeting, Councilor Martin Heinrich’s bill, cosponsored by Councilor Miguel Gómez, calling for purchase of land for the Clinton P. [...] Laura Sanchez \ May 26, 2005 Read More
Cars And Money A crowd at the May 2 Council meeting supported higher minimum wages and cruising, but opposed Bush’s Social Security privatization and a four-lane [...] Laura Sanchez \ May 12, 2005 Read More
Double Header After slogging through a Committee of the Whole meeting, councilors tucked into their regular April 18 agenda. Councilor Sally Mayer’s bill reinstating the [...] Laura Sanchez \ Apr 28, 2005 Read More
Jeff Bingaman, Superstar Let’s take a 15-minute break from the current nastiness and give New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman a rousing cheer for being more effective [...] Laura Sanchez \ Apr 21, 2005 Read More
Billions And Billions Of Bills City councilors began the April 4 meeting an hour early, shunted 14 bills to a land use meeting and slogged past the 10:30 [...] Laura Sanchez \ Apr 14, 2005 Read More
Personnel Matters, A Lot At the crowded March 21 meeting, Councilor Craig Loy’s ordinance setting fines for drivers running red lights passed, as did Councilor Tina Cummins’ [...] Laura Sanchez \ Mar 31, 2005 Read More
Simcity A packed house greeted city councilors at the March 7 meeting. The council approved the appointment of Municipal Development Director Ed Adams to [...] Laura Sanchez \ Mar 17, 2005 Read More