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Updates: County and Coop

May 09, 2008

Below Horse Fly posts excerpts from a potpourri of public announcements. One of the marks of the post-modern is fragmentation. In Tiny Taos there is so much going on it's difficult to get a handle on who enjoys what and will attend what event. The crowds are frequently small due to competing events—especially during a crowded campaign season.

Catching up: the county commissioners are consid...

By Bill Whaley


Comedy of Errors

May 08, 2008

Breaking News: Here are the candidates for the board of the chamber, which is a bit of a mystery organization: Linda Kneif, Sharon Bumpas Mitchell, Marc Coan, Wylie Elson, Ronald (Ronnie Lee) Urban, Loretta Gonzales, Kate O’Neill, Luis Reyes. Given Reyes controversial relationship with "accountability" at both the moribund Hispano Chamber and a lack of financial reporting, which he promised b...

By Bill Whaley


Tally Richards Dances Away

May 07, 2008

On the back wall of my office, hang two large photographs by Paul O’Connor: In the lower one Saki Karavas, seated and dressed in a morning jacket, stares straight at you, the smoke from his cigar curling up. Above him, staring off into the middle distance, the onetime glamour girl and Café Society sparkler, Tally Richards, middle-aged in the photo, holds a cigarette. She stares off into the mi...

By Bill Whaley


IBEW Endorses Mylet & Martinez

May 06, 2008

The IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) has endorsed Luisa Mylet and Toby Martinez for the KCE Coop board. See below.

KCE trustees are, reportedly, trying to rush through and sign a contract with CEO Rabbit Reyes on May 9, prior to the May 13 KCE election. Opponents say contract negotiations should be left up to the new board. Proponents say elections should play no role in t...

By Bill Whaley


Budgets, Blast Center, Judicial Complex

May 03, 2008

For local government junkies, it’s a great week. The council is in retreat for budget matters for three days. Sure is a change from the days of Slick Gus, when Mr. Iron Fist slipped the budget by in one day, fifteen minutes per department. We predict rolling eyeballs from our councilors by the time the Curmudgeon of finance gets done with department heads.

According to the fine print, the to...

By Bill Whaley


Force-Hardened Command Center

May 02, 2008

In the strange and wonderful tales of Taos, nothing is more difficult to decipher than the six-year journey of KCE CEO Luis "The Rabbit" Reyes' promotion of the Coop's new hidey hole. The low-interest loan from the Dept. of Agriculture, some 2.8 million to the Coop, thanks to St. Pete, will furnish the bulk of the money for building the new force-hardened terrorist-resistant alleged 911 Center. I ...

By Staff Reports


To: Udall, NNSA, LANL

May 01, 2008

Yesterday at the joint meeting of the town council and county commissioners in Taos, our elected leaders, unanimously adopted “a joint resolution of the Town of Taos and Taos County objecting to proposed nuclear weapons complex “transformation” activities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, including expanded Plutonium Pit Production.” According to the resolution, “plutonium pits are ...

By Bill Whaley


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NEWS & FEATURES

General News
   Bombs Away

Previews / Reviews
   Bailey on Obamamania

Local Government
   Pesky Pundit

Culture
   Publisher’s Notes: Coop Politics

Cover Story
   DA Gallegos: Duty Owed to the Living and the Dead

COLUMNS

The Grunt's View
   Veterans for Peace

Linda Kemper Fair
   Notes from an Eco-Terrorist

Pop Culture
   The Disappeared Barber: Juma Ali of Aztlan

Editorial
   Congratulations to the Town of Taos

Nostalgia
   Gringo Lessons, Sonnenberg Studies

Culture and Race
   Talkin Trash: Punch Card Madness

Home and Garden
   Stray Hearts and Feral Felines

John Farr
   Nine-year Itch

CATALOGUE OF TEARS, Part 1
   Catalogue of Tears, Part 1

CATALOGUE OF TEARS, Part 2
   Catalogue of Tears, Part 2

Catherine Naylor
   The Fly Rocks

Music
   Fox on Salsa, Starr, UNM

Body & Soul
   Give Granny the Gun

Food
   El Meze, Rellenos, Oregano’s

Renegade Style
   Go Green Gardening Garb

Books
   Wood, Lux, Sagan, Goldner, more

Film & Performance
   The Disappeared Barber Part III

Taos to Santa Fe
   Social Dispatches

Business
   Mattress Mary’s New Gig

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