Council Watch: Welcome, 23Rd City Council! New Configuration Is Probably Progressive The first meeting of the newly seated 23rd Albuquerque City Council zipped by in just 68 minutes on Dec. 4. That quick convocation [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Dec 07, 2017 Read More City Councilor Ken Sanchez (Eric Williams Photography)
Community Cable Controversy Access, Providers, Programming To Be Decided Burque’s criminal element took a bite out of the city’s three community cable channels when a transformer was vandalized to steal copper at [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Nov 30, 2017 Read More (Photo on VisualHunt)
Council Watch: Hello Ginger, Goodbye Lewis 22Nd Council Ends On A Positive Note With the flip of a coin and the bang of a gavel, the last meeting of the 22nd Albuquerque City Council came to [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Nov 23, 2017 Read More The 22nd Albuquerque City Council (Eric Williams Photography)
Council Watch: The Passage Of Ido Council Approves Sweeping Zoning Reform They may not be ready for prime time, but despite that, the Albuquerque City Council passed a massive overhaul of the city’s zoning [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Nov 16, 2017 Read More Councilors Pat Davis and Trudy Jones listen to constituents (Eric Williams Photography)
Council Watch: Ido, Beggars And A Fresco Civic Improvement, Safety At Issue Taking a cue from ancient Roman leaders, Albuquerque City Councilors made it a crime to give beggars a quarter along busy roadways, commissioned [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Nov 09, 2017 Read More Patriotic City Councilors Trudy Jones and Ken Sanchez (Eric Williams Photography)
County Matters: The Commission’s Progress County Lawmakers Work On Minimum Wage, Public Health Without a lot of hoopla, the folks over at the Bernalillo County Commission set the foundation for mental health and substance abuse programs, [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Nov 02, 2017 Read More BernCo Commissioner Maggie Hart Stebbins (Carolyn Carlson)
Council Watch: People Of District 5 Nw Citizens Choose New Councilor Voters living in the far northwest part of Burque must choose between two candidates vying for an open city council seat during the [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Oct 26, 2017 Read More (Courtesy Lionsgate Films/Scholastic Books)
Council Watch: Zoning, Pawn And A Runoff Council Tackles Municipal Issues A major revamp of the city’s zoning code, significant changes to how pawnbrokers can do business and stopping vehicle solicitations drew a good [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Oct 19, 2017 Read More
Council Watch: Mysteries Of The Consent Agenda And Other Cabq Phenomena Millions spent for federal police oversight, hundreds of police complaint cases heard and a denied request for an investigation into an unjust drug [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Oct 12, 2017 Read More Councilors Pat Davis and Ken Sanchez (Eric Williams Photography)
Council Watch: Memorials, Recovery And Alvarado Council, Commission Meetings Reviewed Plans for the long-awaited memorial to the West Mesa murder victims were unveiled to the public recently by the Albuquerque parks department. In [...] Carolyn Carlson \ Oct 05, 2017 Read More (Eric Williams Photography)