Fair Housing
Plagued Properties
Absentee landlord saps city resources
PacifiCap, based out of Portland, Ore., owns seven apartment complexes throughout Albuquerque. Tenants from Arioso at Northeast Heights, Sandpiper Apartments and Aztec Village Apartments, all east of Carlisle on Montgomery, are frequent callers says Joe Martinez, director of the Safe City Strike Force.
Council Watch
Core Dissection
District 3—UNM, Downtown, Barelas—has been carved up, with pieces tacked onto neighboring districts. The move lumps most of the city’s federally designated “pockets of poverty” into one district.
- Council Watch: Shades of Blue by Carolyn Carlson (8/20/2020)
- Council Watch: Welcome Back, Now Get to Work! by Carolyn Carlson (8/6/2020)
- Council Watch: Councilors Cleaning House by Carolyn Carlson (7/2/2020)
- Council Watch: Uncharted Territory by Carolyn Carlson (6/25/2020)
- Council Watch: Here to Serve by Carolyn Carlson (4/2/2020)
- Council Watch: The Council in March by Carolyn Carlson (3/19/2020)
Bear With Me
Facebook Never Got Me Laid
People use Facebook as a substitute for human-on-human contact. It's not. You don't communicate on Facebook. You “interface.” It's an ersatz relationship.
Odds & Ends
Funny because it happens to someone else.
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (9/3/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (8/27/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (8/20/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (8/13/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (8/6/2020)
- Odds & Ends by Joshua Lee (7/30/2020)
