Agenda Whacking: A Contact Sport The 800-pound gorilla—another vote on the Paseo del Norte road extension—failed to materialize at the April 19 council meeting. Putting the bill on [...] Laura Sanchez \ Apr 29, 2004 Read More
Raising The Pie Higher Marty, Remarkably, Wants To Be Re-Elected There was a time a few months back when I seriously doubted that Mayor Martin Chavez would run for re-election. At the time [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 29, 2004 Read More
Memory Lapse I’m writing with regards to your Best of Burque results for 2004 (April 8-14). For the Best Westside Bar, I’m wondering why Elliott’s [...] Alibi \ Apr 29, 2004 Read More
Thin Line Talk about a powerful resistance to shame … Folks, here's further proof that America is becoming a parody of itself. The Republican National [...] Tim McGivern \ Apr 29, 2004 Read More
Odds & Ends Dateline: Germany—Judges in the Bonn regional court rejected a woman's claim that candy-making conglomerate Haribo failed to warn her about the dangers of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 29, 2004 Read More
Your Home For Nuclear Waste Government Documents Reveal "Yard Holes" Filled With Radioactive Refuse At Sandia Labs Citizen Action, a local government watchdog group, has for years endured courtroom battles and crawled over roadblocks in its search for proof that [...] Ryan Floersheim \ Apr 29, 2004 Read More
Odds & Ends Dateline: Thailand—A British man has been arrested for going topless after smuggling an estimated $100,000 worth of ecstasy tablets into Thailand. “They didn't [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Apr 22, 2004 Read More
A Major Disservice To Seniors Medicare Reform Discussion Should Be More Than Partisan Bickering The battle for the hearts, minds and coveted votes of America's senior citizens is now fully engaged. On the one hand we have [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 22, 2004 Read More
Where'S The Diplomacy? Mccorkle Victim Of Hardball Politics Watching Gov. Bill Richardson's unceremonious (some would argue deplorable) removal of business honcho Sherman McCorkle from the state's military base retention commission, one [...] Greg Payne \ Apr 22, 2004 Read More
Thin Line With gratitude to Salon.com's “Right Hook” column (which is where “Thin Line” borrowed the idea), I offer you a highly selective sample of [...] Tim McGivern \ Apr 22, 2004 Read More