Council Watch: Council Candidates, Start Your Engines! Citizens, Find Your Favorite And Vote! Fourteen folks are vying for five spots at the city government table. The Albuquerque City Council has the power to implement all laws, [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Sep 21, 2017 Read More
Council Watch: Peace, Film And The Doj Council Meets After Labor Day The regular Sept. 6 meeting of the Albuquerque City Council was quick and easy. A lean agenda was taken care of in under [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Sep 14, 2017 Read More Patriotic City Councilors Benton and Davis at a recent meeting (Eric Williams Photography)
County Matters Development’s Second Phase Approved The Santolina project gained some significant ground after the Bernalillo County Commission narrowly approved the next phase for the planned mega-development on the [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Sep 07, 2017 Read More
Council Watch: Lighting The Way To The Future Post-Eclipse Meeting Is Subdued A small post-eclipse crowd greeted city councilors at their Aug. 21 regular meeting. With no red-hot topics, councilors trekked through an easy agenda [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 24, 2017 Read More (Eric Williams Photography)
Bernco Turns Back Trumpian Logic Commissioner Johnson’s Anti-Immigrant Resolution Refused Dozens of Bernalillo County residents turned out en masse to the Aug. 8 Bernalillo County Commission meeting to support keeping BernCo immigrant friendly. [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 17, 2017 Read More
Council Watch: Council Gets Back To It Ice, Elections And Art Discussed A bucket of prickly issues awaited the Albuquerque City Council at their Aug. 7 regular meeting. Rapid immigration enforcement, election issues and transit [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 10, 2017 Read More APD Chief Eden addresses the Council (Eric Williams Photography)
News Interview: County Commissioner Maggie Hart Stebbins County Commissioner Seeks Progress This middle Rio Grande Valley we inhabit is a layered political enchilada with lots of bubbling parts. One of those political layers is [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Aug 03, 2017 Read More County Commissioner Maggie Hart Stebbins (Carolyn Carlson)
Council Watch: Sick Leave Measure Debated New Legislation Goes Back To Berry The upcoming Oct. 3 municipal ballot just got a little more complicated. Stuck between a citizen-driven, court mandated ballot initiative—producers and workers if [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Jul 13, 2017 Read More Albuquerque's City Council (Eric Williams Photography)
The Forms Of Things Unknown Midsummer City Politica, Explained Democracy keeps rolling. Even during the long days of midsummer—amidst record heat waves and the threats from Trump’s nationalist agenda to our local [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Jul 06, 2017 Read More
