Downtown Arena Plan Moves Forward City Can Walk Away From Partnership If Private Funding Fails The prospect of big bucks and flying balls delighted a T-shirt-wearing crowd at the June 28 special meeting of the City Council. The [...] Laura Sanchez \ Jul 08, 2004 Read More
A Big John Kerry Abrazo For La Plebe Hispanics Give Him The Love At Phoenix Convention If you believe the propaganda emanating from some Republican strategists' pipe dreams, the Hispanic vote is up for grabs in the 2004 presidential [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jul 08, 2004 Read More
Thin Line The Dick Cheney affair. It's fair to say, the vice president is very popular among GOP supporters, generally. Many actually still believe he [...] Tim McGivern \ Jul 08, 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
Odds & Ends Dateline: Belgium—A couple who have named all 15 of their children in honor of Elvis Presley say they have run out of names [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 08, 2004 Read More
Reagan Reloaded I have a slight issue that I would like to clarify in response to Jerry Ortiz y Pino’s article [RE: “Sniffing out the [...] Alibi \ Jul 08, 2004 Read More
Odds & Ends Dateline: England—Exotic dancer Donna Cleeve was forced to quit her $1,500-a-week job because she's allergic to, well, pole. The 20-year-old from Portsmouth, who [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 01, 2004 Read More
Filling Shoes Following the announcement of Chief Administrative Officer Jay Czar’s decision to leave office at the June 21 council meeting, Mayor Martin Chavez appointed [...] Laura Sanchez \ Jul 01, 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
Mixing Religion And Politics Gives Me A Hangover I don't belong to an organized religion; I'm a Roman Catholic. That's a paraphrase of Will Rogers' great line, except he was talking [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jul 01, 2004 Read More