This October the Estancia Rotary Club is kicking off fall the same way they have for 28 years: by launching pumpkins as far as they possibly can with mechanical devices. Families, community-serving groups, vendors, pie connoisseurs, slingshot engineers, travelers from around New Mexico and anyone looking to spend a cool afternoon outdoors will be gathered […]
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He was ‘Mr. Walz’ to them, and they want D.C. to know he’s for real.
By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post (c) 2024 “Mr. Walz.” That’s who was on that big debate stage Tuesday night. “Mr. Walz built the set for my senior play,” Andrea Johnson, one of Gov. Tim Walz’s former high school students, told a crowd of about 150 people who gathered to watch the vice-presidential debate and […]
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He was ‘Mr. Walz’ to them, and they want D.C. to know he’s for real.
By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post (c) 2024 “Mr. Walz.” That’s who was on that big debate stage Tuesday night. “Mr. Walz built the set for my senior play,” Andrea Johnson, one of Gov. Tim Walz’s former high school students, told a crowd of about 150 people who gathered to watch the vice-presidential debate and […]
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Vance probably ‘won’ the debate. But Walz might have gained more.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 A lot of the conventional wisdom has it that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a better vice-presidential debate than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night. And instant post-debate polling suggests that’s more or less how swing voters saw it. But the same polling paints a […]
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Vance probably ‘won’ the debate. But Walz might have gained more.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 A lot of the conventional wisdom has it that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a better vice-presidential debate than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night. And instant post-debate polling suggests that’s more or less how swing voters saw it. But the same polling paints a […]
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Trump downplays U.S. troop injuries in 2020 Iranian attack as headaches
By Niha Masih, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Donald Trump once again downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in 2020, describing them as “a headache,” in response to a questionat a campaign event in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Trump’s repeated […]
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Trump downplays U.S. troop injuries in 2020 Iranian attack as headaches
By Niha Masih, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Donald Trump once again downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in 2020, describing them as “a headache,” in response to a questionat a campaign event in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Trump’s repeated […]
Posted inHousing & Homelessness, Westside Albuquerque
Persistence Pays Off
Corrales Fire Chief Anthony Martinez’s persistence paid off. On Sept. 25, county commissioners approved a resolution to donate a decommissioned 2014 Ford F550 pickup from the county’s fire department to the Corrales Fire Department. Martinez had his eye on this firetruck for nearly a decade, repeatedly requesting it over the years. When the truck was […]
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County Commission Backs Legislation to Transfer Ancestral Lands Back to San Felipe Pueblo
Sandoval County commissioners unanimously approved a letter to the New Mexico congressional delegation expressing strong support for legislation to transfer approximately 7,167 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land, known as Ball Ranch, into trust for the San Felipe Pueblo. U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury introduced the San Felipe Pueblo Land Trust bill on Sept. […]
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What Vance, Walz need to do to win Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate
By Amber Phillips, Special to The Washington Post The first and only vice-presidential debate is Tuesday. Republican nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) and Democratic nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off in person, and it could be the last debate before the election. Vice-presidential candidates can make a difference in tight races, said Joel […]