Santa Fe 400th: An enduring love of learning
Posted: 9/4/2010, 8:00 PM Mountain time
For close to three centuries — before New Mexico achieved statehood in 1912 — the state's school system developed and transformed under the governance of three different flags. Education in the state ...

High court could hear Wal-Mart class action
Posted: 9/4/2010, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Wal-Mart Stores last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court decision that a massive sex-discrimination case against the company can proceed as a class action. The case invo ...

Buckman Direct Diversion draws in first flows from river
Posted: 9/4/2010, 8:00 PM Mountain time
If you were standing on the banks of the Rio Grande west of Santa Fe last month, you might have been a witness to a historic milestone without even realizing it. With the push of a button at the ...

Community Farm: Residents gather to reap produce — for home-cooked pies and food banks

Posted: 9/4/2010, 7:00 PM Mountain time
Destiny Archuleta's waist-long hair gleamed in the sun as she arduously moved the apple picker — that was more than twice her height — from one branch to another. After one hour, the 5-year-old's ...

Richard Rhodes' new book examines politics of nukes
Posted: 9/4/2010, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Richard Rhodes' fourth installment of his epic history will be his last, he says, but it does not conclude the subject of the nuclear age. Twilight of the Bombs begins in 1990 and, with a few fla ...

Woman dies in single-car accident in Española
Posted: 9/4/2010, 8:00 PM Mountain time
A 29-year-old Santa Cruz woman died in a single-vehicle car crash late Thursday in Española after being briefly pursued by an Española police officer. Roxanne M. Romero was the only occupant of a ...

Back to School: Archaeological institute helped define Santa Fe
Posted: 9/4/2010, 7:00 PM Mountain time
Adolph Bandelier was broke. Although he had received a $1,200 grant to explore the indigenous peoples and wondrous ruins of New Mexico, that money went quickly to travel and supplies. Exasperated, cur ...

Timeline
Posted: 9/4/2010, 7:00 PM Mountain time
1812 New Mexico representative to Spain asks crown to fund schools. 1826 Vicar of New Mexico uses own money to start Santa Fe school. 1832 Mexican officials report one public school in Santa ...

Santa Fe 400th profiles: Teachers, scores and money
Posted: 9/4/2010, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Over time, any list of Santa Fe's leading citizens has included people who stood up for teachers, pushed for student achievement and did so by spending tax money wisely. Marcelino Abreau If ...

Santa Fe 400th: Squabbles over school funding, reform timeless
Posted: 9/4/2010, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Consider two statements separated by nearly 200 years but bound by an enduring plea for money to run Santa Fe schools. In 1812, Pedro Bautista Pino, New Mexico's representative to the Spanish par ...

Cochiti Lake a getaway light on gas
Posted: 9/4/2010, 8:00 PM Mountain time
It may be just down the hill from Santa Fe but for many visitors to Cochiti Lake, it's a world away from the hustle and grind of the capital city. "And those who haven't been here in a while shou ...

Local news in brief, September 5, 2010
Posted: 9/4/2010, 8:00 PM Mountain time
City, college host arts celebration The city of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design (formerly the College of Santa Fe) will host a celebration of Santa Fe's creative and artist ...