The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office has a new Animal Cruelty Report Form on its website to help notify the county’s Animal Cruelty Task Force of suspected animal abuse. Anyone who has witnessed animal cruelty can fill out the request form and remain anonymous if they choose. The form has a space to report the address […]
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Albuquerque Museum acquires globally celebrated pink teeter-totter
The Albuquerque Museum announced today that it has acquired one of the award-winning and globally celebrated pink teeter-totters formerly installed at the U.S./Mexico border wall. The Teeter-Totter, created by architect Ronald Rael and designer Virginia San Fratello in 2019, has served as a highly visual beacon of social commentary concerning the treatment of migrants, the […]
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City Desk interview: Arts & Culture director talks iconic KiMo Theatre
One of the city’s key assets is the historic KiMo Theatre, located in the heart of Downtown, on Central Avenue and Fifth Street. The storied pueblo-deco structure built in 1927 has seen more than 10,000 people file into its 650-seat theater in the past few months. Oreste Bachechi, an Italian immigrant and merchant, was the […]
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What should happen after the city has completed the police reform effort?
As the federally mandated reform of the Albuquerque Police Department closes in on 10 years — and the end is in sight — community policing groups have begun thinking about what comes next. With that in mind, a policing expert who has worked on consent decrees in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, Md., visited the Southwest […]
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‘We are familia’
Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a series titled Downtown Albuquerque Reboot, about the city’s center, its challenges and the plans to address them. Read about why the area matters here, about vacant buildings here, about crime here and end with what the area has to offer here. Lorenzo Otero has been spending […]
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Commissioner to Take Inventory of East Mountain Roads in Need of Repair
Bernalillo Commissioner Eric Olivas acknowledges that there are pretty poor road conditions in the East Mountains and is taking steps for a maintenance plan and budget for how to fix them. “The number one complaint I get in my district is about roads, specifically in the East Mountains,” said Olivas. “I am trying to dedicate […]
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Man serves joy through popcorn
On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, the lobby of 505 Marquette Ave. is permeated with the comforting aroma of “better than movie theater” popcorn and the warm laughter of an Albuquerque man who loves making people’s days better. Not everyone who enters the lobby of the building is having their best day. The building houses the […]
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Special Help Wanted: 86% of APS teacher vacancies are for special education teachers
The Albuquerque Public Schools district needs more than 100 special education teachers to fill vacancies in its 176 individual schools. According to the district’s job listings on Thursday afternoon, 120 of 139 open teaching positions were in special education. The district is not unique in that regard. Monica Armenta, executive director for communications at APS, […]
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Former Dem. Manny Gonzales III couldn’t win GOP support for US Senate. A month later, he’s already running for a different GOP office.
Commentary by Pat Davis, City Desk The website mannyforsenate.com still promotes Manny Gonzales III’s one-month campaign as a Republican candidate for US Senate in Washington D.C. The campaign Facebook page he used last month to announce his failure to qualify for that race still bears the URL ending in “MannyforABQ,” an apparent holdover from his […]
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Next year’s APS budget includes more money for special education, less money for food
Albuquerque Public Schools will have less money to work with next fiscal year, but it is working on ways to lessen the disruption in services, budget officials told the Board of Education Wednesday evening. District officials have said the budget will drop from $2.167 billion for the current fiscal year to about $1.9 billion for […]