What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been Council president Brad Winter began the Nov. 21 meeting by presenting engraved Nambé ware platters to departing councilors Miguel Gómez and Tina Cummins. [...] Laura Sanchez \ Dec 01, 2005 Read More
A Change In Weather Gov. Richardson Wants To Slash The State'S Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 75 Percent, But Is That An Impossible Task? A plan to cut 75 percent of New Mexico’s greenhouse gas emissions in 45 years sounds like the premise for a science fiction [...] Laura Sanchez \ Nov 24, 2005 Read More
Winding Down Albuquerque’s 16th Council met for the next to last time on Nov. 7. Councilors Sally Mayer and Miguel Gómez were absent. Councilor Eric [...] Laura Sanchez \ Nov 17, 2005 Read More
Pops And Corps On Oct. 17, subdued councilors met after the recent, balance-shifting municipal election. Not that party labels have meant much recently, with a Democratic [...] Laura Sanchez \ Oct 27, 2005 Read More
Heather Pacs It In According to a Sept. 29 story in USA Today, Representatives Heather Wilson of New Mexico and Jeb Bradley of New Hampshire are the [...] Laura Sanchez \ Oct 06, 2005 Read More
Arrrrr, Me Hearties! Regrettably, councilors failed to conduct their business in buccaneer lingo on International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Sept. 19. But they didn’t completely [...] Laura Sanchez \ Sep 29, 2005 Read More
Short And Sad The City Council’s special meeting on Aug. 22 adjourned in less than two hours so that councilors could attend the Rosary for slain [...] Laura Sanchez \ Sep 01, 2005 Read More
Kill Bills At the Aug. 15 meeting, Councilor Craig Loy’s bill banning cruising Downtown and Councilor Sally Mayer’s massive revision of the city’s animal ordinance [...] Laura Sanchez \ Aug 25, 2005 Read More
Cranky, Cranky Several councilors apparently spent the July semi-vacation sharpening their axes for the Aug. 1 meeting instead of relaxing. However, the Council unanimously passed [...] Laura Sanchez \ Aug 11, 2005 Read More
Melt Down At the June 20 meeting, city councilors braced for a session running into early morning, but a Democratic walkout cleared the chamber before [...] Laura Sanchez \ Jun 30, 2005 Read More