The trending story for the week isn’t even Amanda Chavez.

It’s trees.

Not trees friendly to New Mexico.

Just your basic shade-making, water-sucking invasive species that managed to hide publicly in Santa Fe’s most tree-rich space for half a century.

I don’t need to look at our digital audience dashboard to know which stories from The Santa Fe New Mexican are catching viewers’ attention.

One characteristic of the City Different is no different from anywhere else. When residents get mad, they blame everyone. Including us.

A reader left me a voice message at 6:05 p.m. last Sunday, seemingly irritated that we quoted Ray Sandoval, aka The Zozobra Whisperer, for a recent story on treegate.

Maybe her party’s wait at Tomasita’s was longer than five minutes, and she thought, “Why don’t I c

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