The Santa Fe Review

A Journal of Commentary and Reportage

September 2004 to October 2009

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copyright 2009 to 2020 by George Johnson

A Stroll Along Shirley Maclaine Boulevard

Part 1. Rebecca's House and Ludwig's Castle
Part 2. The Chamber of Commerce's (Not So) Secret Candidate
Part 3. David Pfeffer's Letter and Mayor Delgado's Award
Part 4. Tom Mills and the Elusive Qualities of Life
Part 5. The Great Masquerade: Memories of the 2002 Campaign
Part 6. Why Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Political Coverage, Santa Fe Style

(Brief Interlude: What the Water Budget Really Means)

Part 7. Into the Heart (and the Soul) of Santa Fe
Part 8. Mr. Miller's Smoking Gun
Part 9. The Journal Follows the Money (and a Visit from the Berardinelli Robot)
Part 10. The Demagoguery of Matthew Ortiz
Part 11. The Thornburg Companies and United Way
Part 12. The Archeological Impact of Rick Berardinelli
Part 13. A Visit to Rio Rancho Viejo
Part 14. A Gunnslinger Launches an Election Eve Attack
Part 15. The Undertaker's Smile (The Return to Ludwig's Castle)
Part 16. In the Matter of Shelly Gunn
Part 17. The Rooming House at 346 Calle Loma Norte

Part 18. The Final Episode

Dispatches From the Land and Water Wars

19. Election Postmortem
20. El Molino Gigante
21. Hotel Santa Fe
(Our story continues)
22. The Environmental Impact of Jennifer Jenkins
23. The Short-term Rental Racket
24. Archbishop Lamy's Parking Lot
25. Mayor Coss's Lost Gamble
26. Tommy Macione Swamp
27. Sweeney Center Blues
28. The Tragedy of the Commoners
29. Councilors, Cops, and Russian Dolls
30. West Side Story
31. Taking Back the River
32. The Case of the Clovis Pigs
33. The San Juan-Chama Shell Game Revisited
34. The Santa Barbara Review and The Return to Santa Fe
35. Kepler's Inquisition
36. The Top 10 Stories of 2007
37. The Thornburg Dilemma
38. Santa Fe's Dying River Plan
39. Blinded by Pseudoscience
40. Blinded by (Andrew Davis's) Light
41. Invasion of the Spa People
42. Buying Back the River
43. The State of the City
44. Before the Fall
45. The Environmental Impact of Selfishness
46. The Battle for Talaya Hill
47. The New Urbanism Scam
48. Festival of the Cranes
49. The Fall of the House of Thornburg
50. Who Owns the Plaza?
51. Summer Doldrums
52. A Walk Up the Rio Mora
53. Indian Ruins
54. Buffalo Thunder
55. Spirit Worlds
56. Santa Fe Indian School, Inc.
57. My Anti-blog
58. Updates from the Battle Fronts
59. Truth or Consequences
60. Down by the Riverside
61. Magic Mountain
62. The Great Drought of '09
63. Sim City

Standing features:

The Mysterious Destruction of the Santa Fe Indian School

The Ultimate Santa Fe Precipitation Chart

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