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For holidays to come, invest in new fuels


It'll be a few days before the figures are in, but the view so far this holiday weekend is of lots of cars on our state's highways. Here in el norte, Texas plates are in profusion — a fair number of them affixed to motor homes.

Fewer of them are rolling off dealers' lots, and the Winnebago factories in Iowa have laid off a few hundred workers —but so many have already been built that there's not a notable shortage of them in public and commercial parks. »Read this editorial

From July 4 rebellion to international wra

For many reasons — was it the budding romanticism in the air, the fascination with rebellious colonials and their high-sounding language about freedoms, or merely the chance to make mischief with Georgian England? — men from many nations risked lives and fortunes on American independence. »Read this editorial


Consternation continues over vacation rentals

A month or so into the first Santa Fe Summer under the city's short-term rental ordinance, our city has been más o menos peaceful; no noisy raids by the Propriety Police, who landed on Goler Fine Shoes last July like a big bird for the Palace Avenue store's violation of city law against saying it was having a sale. »Read this editorial


Amigos: Let's serve a compassionate solution

Balancing competing interests is seldom easy — and that's obviously the case in a dispute between members of Los Amigos del Parque and a state agency. »Read this editorial



The past 100 years
From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

July 5, 1983:
A Santa Fe mother credits a state-required car seat and help from God with saving her 3-month-old son from being killed in a hit-and-run accident that threw her car off an embankment north of town. Everyone else in the care was injured but the baby was not scratched. The new state law went into effect about two weeks ago, requiring drivers to keep any passengers under 5 years old in a car seat.
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The Past 100 years for July 4, 2008

Past 100 years, July 3

Past 100 years, July 2

The past 100 years, July 1

The past 100 years June 30



City tosses trash bags — and workers

I read in The New Mexican that the city will stop giving out trash bags. Giving. Right. Haven't we been paying for them with our garbage assessments? But no, because the bags will cost more this year, the city is investing in an entirely new system. »Read more letters


Letters to the editor for July 4

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Valverde wins 1st Tour de France stage

PLUMELEC, France — Alejandro Valverde of Spain won the first stage of the Tour de France on Saturday with a ride through flat country, the opening of a three-week race trying to restore its luster after years of doping scandals.  »Story

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'An ominous time'

It was a year of hope and loss, of dashed dreams and civil unrest, of a trip to the moon and a new X rating for films, of political assassinations and the premiere of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. It was a year with so many milestone events captured on camera that, collectively, the images seem to speak mostly of turmoil, pain, and lots of things gone wrong.  »Story

US/World News

High-tech smear tactics

PRINCETON, N.J. — The e-mail landed in Danielle Allen's queue one winter morning as she was studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation's most brilliant minds. The missive began: "THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO."  »Story

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