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Archive

Taos County Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting Summary

May 16, 2013

Taos County: The Renewal of Democracy

May 15, 2013

Who stole the money from the Coop?

May 14, 2013

Virgil “The Voice” Wins and Dad Deliberates

May 10, 2013

El Mitote: Coop Dollars working for you: Legal Mugging Today at District Court

May 9, 2013

Taos Bandidos Reflect the Majority Culture

May 5, 2013

Magical May in Taos: Rebirth of the Human Spirit

May 3, 2013

Vote Against the Muggers!

April 26, 2013

Astrologess Weekly Update April 22 – 28, 2013

April 22, 2013

A Culture of Violence: Cowardice & Courage

April 18, 2013

Taos County Update

April 17, 2013

Short Circuits at KCEC

April 13, 2013

Beauty, Blasphemy and Blight

April 9, 2013

Taos Annexation Heats Up: Retaliation and A Secret Commission Meeting

April 5, 2013

Performers y Los Pendejos

March 31, 2013

Taos Energy Report: Renewables

March 22, 2013

My Favorite Composer

Why Annexation? Why Indeed?

March 14, 2013

Annexation and Litigation

March 13, 2013

Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns and Thuggery!

March 11, 2013

Taos Rhymes with Chaos

March 10, 2013

KCEC Seeks Modification Order at PRC

October 25, 2011

Leaked CIA Memos Confirm Class Warfare

October 26, 2011

Breaking News: Corrupt Practices at Town Hall

October 27, 2011

Taos Hydro Power Project Announced

October 28, 2011

County Business

October 31, 2011

Capitalism, Greed, and Education

November 2, 2011

Taos: The Underreported Issue of the Big Box

November 4, 2011

“Ban the Box” is Back

November 6, 2011

El Mitote: Taos, El Prado, Beyond

November 10, 2011

The Demagogue and The Watcher (TMS)

November 13, 2011

Astro Update and Lawrence in Taos

November 14, 2011

Didion’s Elegiac Memories

November 16, 2011

Taos Municipal Elections: The Conversation Begins

November 18, 2011

Astrologess Weekly Update Nov 21 – 27, 2011

November 24, 2011

On Revolution and Late-Breaking Trends

November 22, 2011

Astrologess Weekly Update Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2011

November 28, 2011

Family Dollar, Rio Grande Water, Nukes are Us

November 29, 2011

Santa Looks like Jean, Darren, Jennifer, Jeff

December 2, 2011

Scrooge aka “Taos Pueblo WarChief” Shuts Down Santa’s Elves

December 4, 2011

Merry Christmas from Taos Pueblo

December 6, 2011

Merry Christmas from Taos Pueblo: Part II

December 9, 2011

Rumors, News, Complaints

Lawlessness in Taos

December 10, 2011

St. Nick Visits With Vendors

December 11, 2011

The Man Who Killed the Cow and other Taos Doings

December 14, 2011

Taos: Year of the Protester

December 20, 2011

The Sky Above and The Mud Below

December 30, 2011

Rio Grande Bridge Vendors: Endangered Species

December 31, 2011

Highway 64 Bridge: Unsafe at any Speed!

January 4, 2012

Brief Reports and Commentary

January 7, 2012

Town Announces Candidates for Council

January 11, 2012

Plus ça change, plus ça meme chose!

January 12, 2012

Astrologess Weekly Update Jan 16 – 22, 2012 

January 17, 2012

Taos Town Issues for Council Candidates

January 22, 2012

Citizens Plead for Spanish: Mayor Pleads for Harmony

January 24, 2012

The Challenge for the County’s LUDC

January 26, 2012

Taos County and Town of Taos Issues Heat Up!

January 28, 2012

Taos Democracy and Debate

February 1, 2012

The Culture Clash and the LUDC

February 4, 2012

Astrologess Weekly Update Feb 13 – 19, 2012

February 12, 2012

Special Prosecutor Warns Sign Man

February 13, 2012

Aspiring Writers and UNM Students: Pick up quick credits and advice

March 7, 2012

The Taos News Scores!

February 17, 2012

Taos Files Criminal Complaint Against Sign Man

February 19, 2012

Taos Town Issues

February 23, 2012

Ken Price: 1935—2012

February 26, 2012

Mirror Images: Romney and Obama

February 29, 2012

Good Samaritan Accused of Larceny

March 1, 2012

The Rise of Las Taosenas

March 3, 2012

Taos Judge Acquits Sign Man

March 5, 2012

The Ides of March

March 6, 2012

Astrologess Weekly Update Mar 12 – 18, 2012

March 12, 2012

Taos Citizens and Consumers Cope with (Economic) Assault

March 13, 2012

Handicapping Taos Politics

March 18, 2012

Astrologess Weekly Update Mar 19 – 25, 2012

March 19, 2012

KCEC Myth and Reality

March 22, 2012

A Parable of Fraud, Hoax, and Heroism

March 27, 2012

Paul O’Connor Visits Remarkable Art in China

Astrologess Weekly Update Apr 2 – 8, 2012

April 2, 2012

Take Back Your Coop, Your Government, Your Country

April 4, 2012

Taosenos Confront the “Survival of the Coop”

April 8, 2012

Taos Sign Man Convicted and Fined: $300!

April 12, 2012

Springtime in Taos and Los Politicos

April 20, 2012

Taos Sign Code Controversy Breaks Out!

April 22, 2012

Gov. Martinez Appoints Jeff Shannon Judge!

April 24, 2012

Taos Sign Man Files Tort Claims

April 27, 2012

Taos Antinomianism and the Absurd

April 29, 2012

Taos Judge Andria Cooper joins the Judicial System

May 1, 2012

Taos DA Gallegos and CEO Reyes: Good People!

May 3, 2012

Kit Carson Elections on Tuesday

May 7, 2012

Mylet & Adang Win Taos Coop Race

May 9, 2012

Taos Coop Victories Spark Hope for Change

May 14, 2012

Villages Politics Rule Taos but the Sign Man Stands UP!!

May 17, 2012

Taos Exhibitions and Opportunities

May 19, 2012

Notes on Politics & Art

May 23, 2012

Magical Thinking and Public Safety

May 25, 2012

Taos Primary Endorsements

May 28, 2012

Taos Election Stunner: The Anglo Ascendancy!

June 6, 2012

Taos Portraits at Moby Dickens Today

June 7, 2012

Changing Paradigms of Education

June 18, 2012

Viva La Huelga

June 21, 2012

Old Martinez Hall: Circa 1971

June 23, 2012

Old Martinez Hall: Part II

June 28, 2012

Goodbye Old Martinez Hall (Part III)

June 29, 2012

Coop News: Taos KCEC in “Technical Default,” Mora-San Miguel Prepares Plan

July 2, 2012

Caveat: Mid-Summer Excitement at Local Government

July 9, 2012

Sharks at the County: Blood in the Water

July 11, 2012

More Blood in the Water at the County?

Taos County Telenovela Continues

July 12, 2012

Beauty and Bucks: A Human Story

July 13, 2012

Weekend Reminders

July 14, 2012

Member Opposes Broadband Debt on KCEC Assets

July 17, 2012

Taos Fiestas: A Time of Elegies

July 20, 2012

IN THE MATTER OF KIT CARSON ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.’S CASE NO. 10 00379 UT ADVICE NOTICE NO. 57

July 24, 2012

KCEC caveats and Tidbits from El Norte

July 30, 2012

Breaking News: Coop Pledges 100% of Assets on Broadband Bet

August 2, 2012

New County Policy: “If it ain’t broke, break the sucker”

August 3, 2012

“The fairest picture the earth affords.” –Mark Twain

August 6, 2012

The Taos Hug: Symbolic of the Times

August 20, 2012

Mayor’s Vendetta Endangers Community: Northrup Freed

August 22, 2012

Bence Asks KCEC for Transparency

August 24, 2012

Dog Days Humor

August 25, 2012

Taos summer season ends on a high note

August 30, 2012

Astrologess Weekly Update Sep 3 – 9, 2012

September 2, 2012

Taos Knight rider attacks KCEC Activists and PRC Order

September 5, 2012

PRC Commissioner Marks Writes KCEC

September 6, 2012

Price Retrospective, Dixon New Work

September 9, 2012

Have you been to LACMA?

September 15, 2012

The Pleasure of Remembering Steve “Sudden Death” Sabol

September 20, 2012

CRAB Hall Eleven…Yo Ho…EEELeven! Case…Dismissed!

September 28, 2012

FOB Announces Plans for Broadband and “Eye in the Sky”

October 5, 2012

Viva Amy at La Martina’s tonight…

October 9, 2012

Amy’s Show: The Silenced Majority

October 10, 2012

Football, the Baseball Playoffs, and Politics

October 11, 2012

Friction Focus on BB & KCEC BB: National and Local Issues

October 12, 2012

Taos: Ready for the 22nd Century

October 17, 2012

KCEC Coop, and How to Feel Bad–then Good!

October 26, 2012

Romney and Ryan Reveal “Plans”

November 1, 2012

Astrologess Weekly Update Nov 5 – 11, 2012

November 5, 2012

Popular Culture and Politics

November 9, 2012

Freak Show in Nation’s Capital

November 15, 2012

Anonymous, Karl Rove and the Romney 2012 Election Fix?

November 20, 2012

The Principle of Parsimony: the way forward

November 27, 2012

KCEC Provokes Homespun Outrage in Cerro

December 3, 2012

Taos County Realpolitick: Corruption or Incompetence?

December 7, 2012

Incivility and Indecency Ensconced in America

December 18, 2012

Seco Duo Charged by Feds

December 20, 2012

KCEC: HASTE MAKES WASTE!

December 22, 2012

Taos Friction “Man of the Year”

December 29, 2012

Morrison Memorial Tower

January 5, 2013

Lincoln: A Spielberg Movie

January 8, 2013

News Highlights from the County Complex

ARIA/Winter 2013

January 16, 2013

American Hysteria: Speech v. Violence

January 20, 2013

A political parable about living in Paradise

January 25, 2013

El Mitote

January 30, 2013

Astrologess Weekly Update Feb 4 – 10, 2013

February 5, 2013

Annexation: Town Swallows County GRT

Annexation and Command Center on Tues. at Complex

February 9, 2013

County–Town Challenge: E911 & Annexation

February 17, 2013

County Nixes Command Center But Calls for Regionalization on Airport

February 19, 2013

“The County has no standing…here”–Oscar Rodriguez

February 21, 2013

Update on the Perils of PSAP, Annexation, and visiting New Orleans

February 23, 2013

Town of Taos and KCE Coop: Unholy Alliance

February 26, 2013

KCEC Command Center Schism Endangers Public Safety

February 27, 2013

Drones in America, Tow Trucks in Taos

March 8, 2013

Catching up with the Police State

May 16, 2013

The Artful Experience

May 11, 2013

Taos Renewable Energy Report II

May 3, 2013

Luis Reyes: Movida Maker and Cover-up Artist?

April 29, 2013

Hank Saxe: An Inquiry

April 17, 2013

Taos County Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting Summary April 2, 2013

April 14, 2013

Town “Gets” Jeff

April 5, 2013

President Obama Designates Rio Grande del Norte National Monument

March 22, 2013

The Taos News and Erminio Martinez v. Horse Fly

March 9, 2013