• It's Up to SF To Be More Open
  Santa Fe's city councilors want the city's books to be accessible to the public online. They point to Albuquerque, which inaugurated a website last month that allows the taxpaying public to find out where its money is going. The Albuquerque site provides information ranging from workers' salaries to contracts and even a ledger — kind of an online glimpse at the city's checkbook on any given day. (Wednesday, September 08, 2010)
• Letters
  Los Alamos Clinic Knows Your Pain (Wednesday, September 08, 2010)
• Letters
  Editor's note: The following two letters were run together and misattributed in last Sunday's Journal Santa Fe opinion section. They are re-published correctly here. (Sunday, September 05, 2010)
• LANL Proposal Needs New Study
  Tom Udall's recent interview on Santa Fe's local public radio station, KSFR, with Bill Dupuy was very instructive as to how the New Mexico Democratic senator thinks about the recently filed suit by the Los Alamos Study Group versus the National Nuclear Safety Administration and Department of Energy, and what he furthermore said about the new CMRR nuclear facility in Los Alamos is worth analyzing as well. While he says he is not trying to influence litigation, he does note that litigation is expensive and cumbersome for all. In other words, he doesn't really like it. Udall is still trying to figure out if official Washington would like to do another Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) (for the facility) and has written a letter to that effect to Energy Secretary Steven Chu. (Sunday, September 05, 2010)
• Commissioner's Largesse Should Be Investigated
  (Sunday, September 05, 2010)
• Letters
  Plaza Doesn't Really Need To Have Grass (Wednesday, September 01, 2010)
• Local Castoffs Head North
  (Wednesday, September 01, 2010)
• Take-Home Cars Pricey
  Albuquerque has managed to put the brakes on cops' use of squad cars as personal vehicles. It's high time Santa Fe did the same. (Sunday, August 29, 2010)
• PED Can Save With Cuts on Top
  Our two school districts in Las Vegas, N.M., as well as those across New Mexico continue to look for ways to conform and contort their organizations to fit more budget reductions. In a few years we've gone from teachers buying school supplies for their students, to putting teachers out on the street. This is normal behavior in a large bureaucracy. The folks on the frontline suffer, and the cats at the top stay fat. (Sunday, August 29, 2010)
• Letters
  St. Vincent Working Toward Monopoly (Sunday, August 29, 2010)

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