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Tesuque: We want to be ‘good neighbors’ to opera, Dec. 21

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The opera will be severely damaged. Generally people at casinos are louder, smoke, drive in and out. There has to be major highway construction for egress. Bad news!” M.B. “

Apparently, you’ve never been to a tailgate party before an opera.” L.G. “

This is a great opportunity for Tesuque to build a LEED certified carbon neutral building with state-ofthe-art lighting. If they work closely with the opera and advanced architects, this could work for both organizations. But Tesuque needs to take the opera concerns very seriously. [The opera is] a huge economic engine in Santa Fe and the art they preserve is an international heritage. It’s always scary with the pueblos, because they don’t have to cooperate with anyone given their sovereign status.” T.R. “

How can this possibly be a good thing for Santa Fe or Tesuque Pueblo? People come from all over the world to the Santa Fe Opera, it is a major boon to the local economy. There’s no way it will be the same with the light pollution from a casino next door. I hope the pueblo reconsiders.” C.B. “

Exactly! And people seem to forget that if you take tourists out of Santa Fe to spend money on a pueblo (hotel, casino, dining, etc.), the city gets nothing from any of that. It is a total loss for the city coffers.” M.J. “

This is a great decision for Tesuque Pueblo because location is very important to the success of a business. Once a hotel is added, it will compete with the high-priced hotels in Santa Fe and probably will be fully occupied. I hope they add a parking garage.” G.A.O. “

They should be required to disclose all the financial arrangements including names of the ‘investors.’ It is the public’s right to know who is backing these things, and all the details.” M.J. “

How can highly sophisticated, highly educated and highly rich opera goers be good neighbors to low-life gamblers?” H.G.M. “

I gamble and I’m not a low life.” H.M.

From Facebook

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Why does it make sense to close one (that’s underperforming) and build a new one?! What will be done with the empty building? Another one close by just closed, this seems illogical!” L.M.O. “

Don’t worry if it makes sense for the tribe or not — it’s not your business. If they want to build, God bless them! Their choice, their right!” J.A.

Tesuque Pueblo plans casino next to Santa Fe Opera, Dec. 20

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Oh well, there goes the neighborhood. Time to find some other place to live.” C.B. “If you don’t like the casinos, don’t go to them.” D.M. “Here, I was hoping the pueblos would consolidate, end their convenience-store approach to casinos, actually have a facility that could accommodate their Gathering of Nations, [with a] full Convention Center. The Pit was the pits with the fairgrounds even lower.” C.L. “

The pueblo can do what it wants on the land, but another casino is not going to bring in more people or money. There’s a limited number of people using the casinos and [the new one] will only pull from already existing ones. It’s their money and they can do what they want with it, but investing in the stock market would be a smarter move, cost a lot less and we won’t be left with another ugly, empty building and parking lot in a few years.” A.L. “ANOTHER Casino? There goes the opera!” A.A. “The pueblo is a sovereign entity and can do whatever they want on their own property. How dare people think they have a right to say what the Pueblo can or can’t do?” K.C. “

More visitors to Santa Fe means more jobs and opportunities. More revenue for local stores and restaurants, more attendees at the Opera and more support for the arts and our pueblo neighbors.” S.B.

Heinrich, Udall, Luján: Plutonium pits report ‘inherently flawed’ Dec. 20

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Need any more proof that Democratic politicians are every bit as money-grubbing as the Republicans? Any nasty, dirty industry is just fine as long as it brings in $$$. How about a nice new coal-burning power plant while you’re at it, guys? Or maybe a paper mill.” D.R. “

Nothing new here of course. Los Alamos National Laboratory has fed off nuclear weapons ever since WWII, propped up by their senators, dating back to Clinton P. Anderson. It’s the military industrial complex in action. The outstanding feature of nuclear weapons is their enormous cost, some $8 trillion to date, and their lack of utility.” C.M. “

The world doesn’t need more pits. The absurdity of this ‘assessment’ should not be lost. Estimates range between $1.4 billion and $5.4 billion dollars or $1.9 billion or $7.5 billion dollars. My immediate assessment is they don’t have a clue how much any of it will cost. They just know it’s gonna be expensive, and we all know it’s very dangerous. Surely we can find better ways to occupy those brilliant minds at our labs.” P.B.