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By Doug Truax | Aug 12, 2022
Transparency fosters trust. That’s why we read food labels and check out the deed to the house we’re buying. And, in New Mexico’s election system, it’s why the law allows you to inspect voter registration records.
By Rebecca Dow | Aug 9, 2022
Back in 2018, a state district judge issued an historic decision identifying the long-time shortcomings and faults of New Mexico’s Public Education System
By Renee Grout | Aug 5, 2022
I can’t think of any topic in the last 50 years that has been more divisive than legalized abortion.
By Pete Dinelli | Jul 22, 2022
On May 19 and July 19, APD officials proclaimed they had a 97% homicide clearance rate for 2022 with 47 suspects arrested, charged or identified in 40 recent and past homicide cases. The 97% figure is very misleading.
By Stephan Helgesen | Jul 20, 2022
A few centuries ago people from many ethnic backgrounds flocked to America to find a safe place where they could practice their religion and live among people who believed in a peaceful and tolerant approach to community living.
By Pete Dinelli | Jul 12, 2022
It has been reported that APD Lieutenant Jim Edison who was fired in November 2021 for overtime pay abuse has been reinstated by the city pursuant to a settlement reached between Edison and the City.
By Jim Crawford | Jul 12, 2022
I am strongly in favor of the Valencia County overlay zone approval. We need more oil and gas exploration not less. It will be a great boost to the county's economy.
By Anni Hanna | Jul 11, 2022
Oil and gas billionaire Harvey Yates, Jr. is giddy at the prospect of drilling in Valencia County, ignoring well-documented research on how oil and gas extraction harms health, causes air pollution and water contamination and climate warming greenhouse emissions.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Jul 8, 2022
Surely, all of us feel like our heads are going to explode!
By Pete Dinelli | Jul 5, 2022
Every 10 years, the Albuquerque City Charter requires that the Council appoint a committee composed of an equal number of representatives from each Council District to review and make recommendations redistricting each City Council Districts based on information from the Federal Census
By Carla Sonntag | Jul 1, 2022
This Independence Day, July 4th, we celebrate 245 years of freedom from England.
By Zac Fort | Jun 27, 2022
In New Mexico, we are already a shall-issue state. Therefore, we won’t see any immediate impact on our gun laws as a result of the ruling. But the state is prohibited from attempting to move our concealed carry laws from their current form to a may-issue regime
By Pete Dinelli | Jun 27, 2022
On June 21, Mayor Tim Keller and APD Chief Harold Medina held a news conference to announce a new law enforcement initiative they dubbed “Targeted Enforcement Action Monitoring” (TEAM).
By Harvey Yates | Jun 24, 2022
A proposal has been made to modify Valencia County’s zoning ordinance to allow the development of natural resources in the county.
By Pete Dinelli | Jun 20, 2022
APD is struggling mightily with implementation of 271 mandated reforms to eliminate APD’s “culture of aggression” found by the Department of Justice in 2014.
By Andy Nghiem | Jun 18, 2022
On June 6, members of the the public testified before the Albuquerque City Council in opposition to several Integrated Development Ordinance Amendments centered around the issue of the rising homeless population in the city and where the homeless are allowed to stay.
By George Sharpe | Jun 10, 2022
Some are saying that the one good thing about the Ukraine caused energy crisis is that it will accelerate the transition away from our dependence on fossil fuels.
By George Sharpe | Jun 10, 2022
If I were to ask you how close a well could be drilled to your home without sacrificing the health and safety of your family, what would you say?
By Pete Dinelli | Jun 8, 2022
Research shows that housing is the most effective approach to end homelessness with a much larger return on investment than offering government sanctioned encampments and “tent cities”.
By Judy Young and Valere McFarland | Jun 3, 2022
As members of Women Taking Back Our Neighborhoods and the Albuquerque community, we are voicing our strong opposition to the Amendments to the city’s zoning ordinances which sanction homeless encampments across our city.
