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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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