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Hunter
Santa Fe, NM
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We here in the City of Albuquerque tend to look upon Santa Fe as a sort of annex or side show, something for visitors to our fair city to do in the unlikely event that they should become bored with all that we have to offer here, world class zoo, aquarium, and botanical gardens, Sandia tramway, Nob Hill shops, some of the finest and most diverse restaurants in the Southwest, and of course the balloon fiesta, to mention only a few. Santa Fe has what? A lot of brown houses and a scarecrow bonfire. Whoop-de-doo.
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train boy
Santa Fe, NM
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In your face, you are clueless. Of course balloon fest boosts the SF economy. Duh. Stop looking for conspiracy under your bed.
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Since: Jul 09
Ewa Beach, HI
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If it were not for the hot air in Albuquerque their balloons wouldn't get off the ground.
And some of its people might be better grounded too.
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How about
Santa Fe, NM
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Hunter wrote: . Santa Fe has what?. better everything and smarter people.
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Cynic
Santa Fe, NM
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Trent wrote: I've never seen a newspaper more unconcerned about suffering in its community, and more eager to tell a story that says nobody is suffering when a record number of people are out of work. Maybe they're just trying to up the price of their classified ads, to make up for the freebies placed on Craigslist.
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Susan
Albuquerque, NM
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Wow possible money from Albuquerque. Albuquerque the city Santa Feans love to take potshots at and put down. Albuquerque the city many of your civic leaders point to and say 'we don't want to become another Albuquerque.' But I bet your local businesses are happy to take money from Albuquerque way. Was at your new farmers market a couple of months ago and overheard what must have been a group of locals complaining about the Rail Runner bringing people from Albuquerque who are allegedly buying up things at the market and there not being enough left for locals. We were shocked to hear the comments. That was it for me and my wife. Over the years we have enjoyed spending money in Santa Fe. A couple of times a month we would make a day out of it and eat at least a couple of meals in addition to shopping. Not anymore. A month ago we had guests from out of town, after telling them the story we took them to Taos where we were greeting warmly and not treated like third class New Mexicans. And before someone asks why I read a Santa Fe newspaper its because at times there is better coverage regarding state politics.
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Hunter
Santa Fe, NM
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How about wrote: <quoted text>
better everything and smarter people. That used to be true until I moved to Albuquerque.
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signed
Santa Fe, NM
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kazak wrote: Why do we have a retired National Security Agent analyst reporting economic news? Isn't that more appropriate for a communist nation such as China?
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Yet his lede represents just the opposite:
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However,
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The retired NSA analyst who writes our local economic news claims there can be "little doubt" the tourism event "boosted" the local economy but he can't offer any proof beyond anecdotal examples from a few busisines owners.
Of course the balloon fest increased economic activity. It increases it every year. By the Santa Fe New Mexican's logic, the sunrise boosts the economy every day because that is when people start spending money.
A qualified analyst who is not workign as a propaganda agent would tell us if the routine increase in economic activity matched those of previous years. If not, it did not boost the economy any more than the start of daily business "boosts" the economy every day.
If people spend half as much during the Christmans season this year than during last year's holiday season, will they claim Christmas spending "boosted" the economy.
Santa Fe New Mexican Web editor Henry Lopez removed these comments yesterday. Lopez routinely removes all comments that question ethics of the New Mexican newsroom and its so-called reporters. Questioning the ethics of a major media outlest and the public figures who spew disinformatio in that outlet is a not personal attack.
For a newspaper to interfere with readers comments concerning the ethics and accuracy news reports is beyond unethical -- especially when reader comments are invited and used as evidence the newspaper is interacting with its community.
It is also unethical for a newspaper to cover up the prior employment history of editors -- former NSA analyst Bob Quick in particular -- when that prior employment reflects on potential bias in the way news is reported today. Quick systematically hides the facts about the economic crash in favor of producing exactly the sort of "it never happened, it's over now" propaganda we would expect from an analyst trained by the National Security Agency. spamming crank.
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Doinky
Albuquerque, NM
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Nice the tourists can take the train up to SF for a day, get some good food and buy trinkets. Locals in SF better get a clue - unfriendly encounters spread like wildfire on the internet. Tourists will take their money elsewhere leaving locals playing the Whine Violin, wanking off and feeling sorry for themselves, their living wage, and their lost $$$.
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Felipe
Santa Fe, NM
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Only 9 of 32 entries were allowed to be posted. This must have been a pretty inflamed discussion group. Settle down folks, we really do like one another ...I think.
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