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Pat Davis is the founder and publisher of City Desk ABQ. In a prior life he served as an Albuquerque City Councilor.
Posted inEast Mountains, Edgewood, Jobs, Workers & Economy
Power outage planned Sat. for grid upgrades
Local residents who receive power from CNMEC should plan to be without power most of Saturday afternoon while the utility completes upgrades to a new transformer on the grid. According to Central New Mexico Electrical Cooperative, the outage is scheduled for Saturday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm and will impact various parts of Edgewood and […]
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Baca interviews for Gov. cabinet post
Albuquerque City Councilor Joaquín Baca has two more years left to serve in his council term, but he could be leaving sooner than that, City Desk has learned. Baca has interviewed with Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham for consideration to fill the governor’s vacant cabinet position for secretary overseeing the state’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources […]
Posted inCommunity Content, Congress & Federal Gov.
The Tumbleweed Snowman is 30 years old. See how he’s changed since 1995
OK, Albuquerque, do you know what today is? Yes, it’s #GivingTuesday (an important day in a nonprofit newsroom) but it’s also Tumbleweed Tuesday, the day the Tumbleweed Snowman claims his holiday perch alongside the busy westbound lanes of I-40 next to the AMAFCA offices near the “Big I.” This year is also the icon’s 30-year […]
Posted inCommunity Content
Thankful for locals who’ll be buying local and reading local this season
From the publisher… Pat Davis, Publisher “People have a right to know… Since The Independent News first closed its doors in 2022, no journalists have covered Moriarty. When we brought The Indy back to Edgewood in 2023, we always wanted to get back to Moriarty, too. In the Spring of 2025, we finally did. Working […]
Posted inSandoval Signpost
Thankful for locals who’ll be buying local and reading local this season
From the publisher… Where’s the pride in Sandoval County?As a Rio Rancho resident and editor of the Sandoval Signpost, I noticed something striking: despite being one of the largest cities in New Mexico, Rio Rancho had never hosted a Pride event. While neighboring cities like Albuquerque and Santa Fe celebrated Pride Month with parades and […]
Posted inSandoval Signpost
Sandoval Signpost honored for public service journalism by NM Press Assoc.
The Taos News and Sandoval Signpost were honored by the state’s largest newspaper publisher group for public service journalism by the state’s largest newspaper publisher association this year. The New Mexico Press Association’s Better Newspapers Contest honored journalists and newsrooms statewide during their annual statewide convention in Albuquerque earlier this month. The Sandoval Signpost received […]
Posted inOpinion, Pueblos
Commentary: From conflict to collaboration — How a New Mexico transmission line will protect power delivery and prairie chickens
Opinion in New Mexico Political ReportIn his role as Executive Director for Audubon Southwest, Jon Hayes oversees the National Audubon Society’s operations in Arizona and New Mexico—including two nature centers, a research ranch, and a team of scientists, educators, and advocates all working to advance bird conservation in the Southwest. The Crossroad-Hobbs-Roadrunner Transmission Project, a 345 […]
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Undercover tribal cops lure Arizona man to Isleta Pueblo with 37,000 fentanyl pills
An undercover operation by Isleta Pueblo Tribal Police convinced an Arizona man to deliver more than 37,000 fentanyl pills to the Isleta Reservation last month, court documents show. The U.S. Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs announced the seizure in a press release Tuesday but provided few details. Federal court records filed […]
Posted inCongress & Federal Gov., New Mexico Statewide News
Heinrich, Luján stand firm for health insurance cost fix as Senate moves forward with deal to reopen government
New Mexicans anxious about missing SNAP benefits or federal paychecks may get soon get some relief after a handful of Senate Democrats joined Republicans over the weekend in a deal to reopen the government, though New Mexico’s two U.S. senators did not go along, saying the deal abandons hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans facing […]