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Tuesday, March 5,2013
Local News

PED Crossing

Hanna Skandera’s jet-setting tenure at PED

Justin Horwath
There’s no doubt that Hanna Skandera, secretary-designate for the New Mexico Public Education Department, has been in Santa Fe lately.
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Tuesday, March 5,2013
Local News

Boozy Blues

House of Booze closes; local nightlife struggles on

Justin Horwath
Last week, after a less-than-stellar record of adhering to state liquor laws, Agua Fria Street’s somewhat infamous House of Booze liquor store was shut down.
Tuesday, February 19,2013
Local News

Business School

Should corporate education firms influence state reform policies?

Justin Horwath
Hanna Skandera’s education reform agenda reads like a page from the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s playbook.
Tuesday, February 12,2013
Local News

Numbered Days

The stats behind New Mexico’s domestic violence epidemic

Justin Horwath
Sexual assault remains a complex and underreported problem in New Mexico.
Tuesday, January 22,2013
Local News

Cops and Robbers

On the beat with Santa Fe PD

Justin Horwath
On a recent Friday afternoon, Santa Fe Police Department Officer Jeff Worth spots two teenage boys, both wearing hoodies, nervously looking around as they walk outside the Target on Zafarano Drive. Worth is working his beat plainclothes today, and his vehicle is unmarked. The two boys don’t know he’s watching them.
Tuesday, January 8,2013
Local News

Of Big Money and Private Emails

In the aftermath of Emailgate and New Mexico’s most expensive election, will new laws change the game?

Justin Horwath
If government is truly to be for, by and of the people, then we should know what’s going on—and several lawmakers are trying to make sure that happens.
Tuesday, January 8,2013
Local News

Puck Everlasting

Can hockey make it in New Mexico?

Justin Horwath
Brian Greer moved to Taos to ski, but he got hooked on another winter sport.
Tuesday, December 18,2012
Local News

The Patrón Awards

SFR’s first-ever, possibly biased assessment of the best and worst of 2012

Justin Horwath, Joey Peters
This year marks the inauguration of SFR’s Patrón Awards (named, of course, for New Mexico’s loved and hated patron system—the good ol’ boy network that has shaped state politics for a century). The awards, first announced on Dec. 17 in the Weekly Word podcast (listen at SFReporter.com), range from seriously honorable to utterly facetious. Read on.
Tuesday, December 11,2012
Local News

Elephant in the Room

New Mexico’s political parties struggle to find a foothold in the age of super PACs

Justin Horwath
After elections come more elections. On Saturday—just over a month after the Nov. 6 election—the Republican Party of New Mexico selected its new figurehead: a tall, deep-voiced Lincoln County party chairman who candidly urged his fellow partisans to do some “soul searching.”
Tuesday, December 4,2012
Local News

Duffy’s Out

Another top staffer leaves the Martinez cabinet

Justin Horwath
After a long and varied career in state government, another of Gov. Susana Martinez’ cabinet officials has resigned.
 
 
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