Santa Fe

Today is election day in Santa Fe and other cities throughout the state (including, notably, Rio Rancho). The Santa Fe New Mexican is doing an election day live blog for the Santa Fe municipal elections. Santa Fe voters, among other things, will be voting in their mayoral election.

Need more information about the candidates running for mayor in Santa Fe? The Santa Fe Reporter  endorsed David Coss for mayor last week, but the paper interviewed all of the candidates and posted the audio of the interviews online. Thanks, SFR, for the interviews and the insight into the endorsement process.

In the final poll before the Santa Fe municipal election, March 2, incumbent mayor David Coss has large leads over both of his opponents. The Santa Fe New Mexican poll of the three candidates shows Coss with 52 percent support, former city manager Asenath Kepler at 28 percent and City Manager Miguel Chavez at 8 [...]

An e-mail blast to supporters from Santa Fe mayor David Coss’s campaign highlights his opponent’s tie to the Santa Fe Tea Party.

An internal poll (so take this with a grain of salt) shows that incumbent Santa Fe mayor David Coss has a large lead over his two opponents in the mayoral race. Coss is facing Miguel Chavez and Asenath Kepler in the March 2 election.
The results show that 42 percent of respondents would vote for Coss [...]

President Barack Obama declared a national emergency due to the H1N1 flu outbreak on Saturday, and an article in the Santa Fe New Mexican says health care providers in Santa Fe are “slammed,” because the flu has hit “at a steeper and earlier rate than anticipated.”

Farmington Republican Tom Mullins launched his bid for the 3rd Congressional District in the rotunda of the Roundhouse early this morning. Mullins said his platform included fiscal responsibility, bringing a common sense approach to government and a return to the values of the Constitution.

There is in our country a deep divide between those who see an activist government as the best solution to most of society’s problems, and those who believe that believe it is not the role of government to engineer a utopian society. The majority of Santa Fesinos fall into the former category, but those of us in the latter comprise a significant and politically active minority. Our daily paper attempts to marginalize us at its own peril.

OK, Gallup boosters, prepare the billboards. I feel an all-out tourism campaign coming on.
Paul Theroux, the novelist and travel writer, thinks you ROCK!!!! I mean, he REALLY likes you. Or at least he’d like to visit again, which is more than can be said for the state’s biggest tourist draw, Santa Fe.

When the news came that Santa Fe’s public schools would get some of the federal stimulus bounty being handed out by a benevolent Democratic Congress and president, few suspected that some of that federal pork would turn rancid.

I hope that the sort of NIMBYism that foils so many public works projects doesn’t rear its ugly, selfish head this time, because a new I-25 exit at Richards Avenue is really a necessity.

You can listen to Congressman Ben Ray Luján, D-New Mexico, talk health care reform in an interview with the Santa Fe Reporter. You can get the embedded version over at SFReeper, or just download the mp3 .

More than two dozen state lawmakers have stepped into a fray over whether churches, nonprofits and the such can help generate renewable energy, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports today.

After saying last week that she would not release the results of blood alcohol tests on Scott Owens, the 28-year old man involved in a car crash that killed four teenagers, First Judicial District Attorney Spence Pacheco today changed course and, with Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano, made the information public.

Yesterday, the New Mexico Rail Runner Express celebrated a significant milestone: Its two-millionth rider.
The Rail Runner began in 2006 between Belen and Bernalillo and has since expanded to Santa Fe as well.