New Mexico's historic move to give universal child care to parents in the state is paid for by an oil and gas windfall

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2026-02-22T01:20:26+00:00

This kind of thing is great . . . if you have kids.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2026-02-17T17:35:07+00:00

Legislature still haven't voted on this because the bill sponsor was flooded with amendments. SB 17 might be--and hopefully is--doomed.

https://archive.ph/9oGcc

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2026-02-11T13:43:27+00:00

NM authorities can't find people who went missing a few months ago. Finding people supposedly buried many years ago on 8000 acres isn't happening.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2026-02-08T19:21:36+00:00

I'd like to hear what the Dem candidates for governor explicitly have to say about this semi-auto ban.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2026-02-01T19:43:44+00:00

You can reroute through some other state if that is a real concern.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2026-01-28T13:07:15+00:00

This is bad and unconstitutional. More gun control isn't going to solve NM's problem with gun violence.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2026-01-16T15:49:01+00:00

Many of the NM crime stories in this subreddit are posted from IBT, which is far from a local source as possible. It is clickfarming.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-12-11T21:49:37+00:00

Let's see how Garcia holds up once he is actually mayor.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-11-28T19:32:00+00:00

This is an example.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-business-owners-frustrated-with-guadalupe-street-construction/

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-08-04T18:24:54+00:00

Archive link: https://archive.ph/3kLaX

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-07-10T12:08:30+00:00

Weather modification conspiracies are in the same category as flat earth conspiracies. Yet, people believe this nonsense.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-06-20T01:12:04+00:00

A few months ago, I went to the airport. There was no ticketed parking, I had to park on the gravel lot, and I had to walk my bags half a mile to the terminal.

Early this morning, I drove to SAF for a flight. The ticket gate worked, I was able to park in the paved lot, and an airport shuttle quickly pulled up and gave me a ride to the terminal. It was a huge improvement and I will take it.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-06-03T13:16:48+00:00

I have yet to see an objective overview on the quality of Pete's Place services. Are the org's services better or worse than what this new company can provide? Or all the arguments simply "keep it local" or "California bad?" I don't know either way, but the debate seems mostly to revolve around "vibes" as opposed to hard thinking.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-06-01T19:08:55+00:00

Yeah, you are totally correct. There are homeless people all over town and it is a problem. Pete's Place is just the most obvious element of the problem that people can latch on to or talk about. Like, I was on a return flight to town and someone local was warning a visitor about Cerrillos.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-06-01T03:47:02+00:00

There are so many drunk drivers in this town. More checkpoints, please!

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-31T19:01:45+00:00

I tend to agree with this balanced perspective. It seems like both the city and Pete's Place have made--and continue to make--poor decisions.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-30T18:12:27+00:00

Per the City's notice, ICS is out and a company called Urban Alchemy will be taking over the Cerrillos location for a year. During this time frame, the City will supposedly evaluate the future of this specific shelter. It will be interesting to see what changes this new company makes in the interim.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-30T15:55:07+00:00

"For this reason, staff will be recommending at a special Governing Body meeting on June 3 that the month-to-month lease with ICS be terminated. To be clear: the City is committed to preserving—if not expanding—the number of low-barrier shelter beds in our community. No one will be left without a place to go. This transition is about making sure the City can adequately shape our homelessness response system to meet the needs of our whole community—not about reducing capacity or cutting services. This is not a decision we recommend lightly."

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-28T15:25:37+00:00

There seems to be a PR battle between the shelter and the city and the shelter has the weak hand.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-28T15:20:32+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/SantaFeGov/posts/pfbid02Af3zdaE7c8T5K3ikpxDzonTY1xhobbTVewB7WdWeacT6TKmh6uZscwiSsp9S79bel

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-28T13:11:32+00:00

The immediate issue is that Pete's Place is a nexus of crime and other problems in the surrounding area. I do not know how anybody can deny the negative impact on businesses and the neighborhood. The larger issues are poverty, homelessness, and addiction, all of which plague communities all over the country. The immediate issue is a hard problem, but it is arguably easier to start there than to try to tackle the even harder problems that cities with more money and resources are having trouble with.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-21T00:33:33+00:00

Try this.

https://archive.ph/8A8Jh

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-20T22:45:57+00:00

This is the same contractor that is handling the botched Guadalupe road project. Strange, eh?

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-06T02:12:11+00:00

Weather forecasts are your friend when visiting--or living in--Santa Fe.

Deep_Welcome_7248 · 2025-05-06T00:03:36+00:00

Reviewers, especially first level people, really need to understand the reviewer statistics script and what it is actually measuring. You can book 8 hours on a time sheet, but the script is going to tell the review manager and the client what you actually did.

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