Oñate’s Henchmen In My Blood Bringing It All Together Guess you never know whose skeletons are lurking in your genealogy closet until they start to do some rattling around.In 1598, Pedro Robledo [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Sep 03, 2020 Read More The red paint was an addition made by protesters, yet somehow fits nicely. (Clarke Condé)
News Interview: Officer Involved Shootings Are Nothing New Interview With Civil Rights Attorney Rachel Higgins Officer involved shootings are not new to the Albuquerque Police Department.Dozens of shootings took place from 2000 to 2014, and the subsequent public [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 27, 2020 Read More (Kat Wilcox)
County Matters: Eyes On Our Guns County Wants Citizen Eyes On Sheriff, Better Gun Safety Free money, gun safety and eyes on the sheriff met Bernalillo County Commissioners when they faced down a dense agenda upon their return [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 20, 2020 Read More
Council Watch: Shades Of Blue Support For Police; Keep The Military Bling Rhetoric swirled through a long agenda at the more-than-six-hour Aug. 17 Albuquerque City Council meeting. Support for police and its military-style equipment, controversial [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 20, 2020 Read More Pat Davis joins religious leaders speaking against the militarization of police. (Clarke Condé)
What's The Buzz With Charter Schools? School Choice Important During The Pandemic Have a kid with a passion for foreign languages? How about a flair for the media or digital arts? Maybe a budding flamenco [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 06, 2020 Read More The halls of Amy Biehl just feel a little different right now. (Clarke Condé)
Council Watch: Welcome Back, Now Get To Work! Councilors Return To Tackle Helping Burque Businesses Sliding back into the work mode from a summer vacay can be a rude awakening. This was true for the Albuquerque City Council [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 06, 2020 Read More Expanded outdoor dining is finally moving easily. (Clarke Condé)
A Conversation With Jimmy Santiago Baca The Joy Of Cruising In The New Mexico Sun Jimmy Santiago Baca lived in one of the toughest prisons alongside men that our society deems the worst of the worst. He has [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Jul 23, 2020 Read More Baca, while masked, still finds time to laugh in the sunlight. (Clarke Condé)
Events: Covid Fun In Burque Don’t Let A Pandemic Stop Your Summer Drive-in movies, golf and swim strokes, hundreds of miles of a variety of trails and virtual tours of museums, zoos and other cultural [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Jul 16, 2020 Read More Didn’t the newly renamed The Chicks have a song about this? (Brandon Stephenson)
Council/Commission Watch: County Camera & Catch Up Wide Open Spaces, Body Cameras And Mental Health Accolades Were On The Docket Bernalillo County Commission set aside $1 million bucks plus for proposed sheriff department body cameras at their June 30th meeting. The million was [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Jul 09, 2020 Read More Big brother watches ...themselves? (Ryan Johnson)
Council Watch: Councilors Cleaning House One Long Zoom Call Later, City Council Tackles Corona Questions Burque City Councilors earned their summer vacay after a nearly 6 1/2 hour Zoom meeting, clearing their government table of a myriad of [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Jul 02, 2020 Read More We wouldn’t need reminders like these if everyone just wore their damn masks. (Clarke Condé)