The past 100 years
From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Oct. 24, 1917: At this period in our national history every state, as every patriotic individual, feels an ardent and consuming desire to count for as much as humanly possible in the scale for the triumph of democracy and to register one hundred per cent efficiency so far as its share of the nation’s task is concerned.
In men and money and materials New Mexico has not been remiss; there have been none to say that there is a flaw in her spirit not a lag in her patriotism. But she is particularly fortunate, particularly deserving of felicitation because of the fact that she has counted for something, counted for as much as many a rich and populous old eastern commonwealth in the councils of the national government during the critical time.
Oct. 24, 1967: Implementation of a statewide economic expansion plan is the only valid way New Mexico can avoid a serious financial crisis, a high-ranking state legislator said Monday.
State Rep. John Mershon, D-Otero, noting a predicted $5 million deficit next fiscal year, proposed that the State Planning Office “devise a master plan (for the economic development) and give it priority above all else.”
“I believe we waited four or five years thinking in 1962 that we’d have a solution by 1967,” Mershon told the Legislative Finance Committee. He referred to the 1962 legislative authorization for a statewide resources study which was to have been a basis for state financial planning.
Oct. 24, 1992: For years, it’s been an all-too-Santa Fean juxtaposition: grace and dangerous neglect, side by side.
Where Candelario Street crosses the Arroyo Mascaras, there’s an arching steel, wooden-floored pedestrian bridge to spare nearby residents a climb in and out of the creekbed on the way to DeVargas Center and back.
No sooner do they cross the bridge, though, than they’ve got to cross Paseo de Peralta — where motorists have up a head of steam and are busy watching for cars going in and out of the shopping mall. There isn’t a hint that people might be trying to cross Paseo at that point. Two who have tried in recent months were killed.