Wild Hearts Gallery will feature Dorothy Bunny Bowen’s “Colors of Home” as its October exhibit. According to a press release, the exhibit was inspired by all the places Bunny Bowen has called home. “Expressed in Rozome, Japanese batik on kimono silk, each piece is bound with silk noil and suspended from local juniper branches and […]
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Posted inPueblos
Placitas Community Library will honor poetry’s role in fighting mental health challenges
The Placitas Community Library will feature an afternoon of poetry with three New Mexico poets on Oct. 6. Poets Hilda Raz, Katherine Seluja and Sarah Kotchian will share their work at the library starting at 2 p.m. In recognition of National Mental Illness Awareness Week, some of the poems will honor the role of poetry […]
Posted inEdgewood, Uncategorized
Mountainair Hiring EMS Chief, Certified Police Officer
The Town of Mountainair is looking for qualified individuals to fill two key public safety positions: Emergency Medical Services chief and police officer. Mountainair Mayor Peter Nieto called a special Town Council meeting in July to discuss hiring a police force. Nieto announced on social media last week that the town has hired Paul Lucero […]
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Mountainair Hiring EMS Chief, Certified Police Officer
The Town of Mountainair is looking for qualified individuals to fill two key public safety positions: Emergency Medical Services chief and police officer. Mountainair Mayor Peter Nieto called a special Town Council meeting in July to discuss hiring a police force. Nieto announced on social media last week that the town has hired Paul Lucero […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
Supreme Court rejects bid to put Green Party’s Jill Stein on Nevada ballot
Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post (c) 2024 The Supreme Court refused Friday to intervene in the Green Party’s efforts to put presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state of Nevada for the November election. The Nevada Green Party had asked the justices to halt a ruling from the state’s high […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
Democrats hope Mark Robinson scandal will damage Trump and change 2024 map
Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post (c) 2024RALEIGH, N.C. – Democrats hope that the scandal enveloping Mark Robinson, the GOP pick for governor in North Carolina, could not only derail Robinson’s own campaign but also hurt Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the critical battleground state. CNN reported Thursday that Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North […]
Posted inPueblos, Westside Albuquerque
Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots
By Amy Gardner, The Washington Post (c) 2024 ATLANTA – The Georgia State Election Board approved a rule Friday requiring counties in the critical presidential battleground to hand-count all ballots this year, potentially upending the November election by delaying the reporting of results. The change was spearheaded by a pro-Trump majority that has enacted a […]
Posted inWestside Albuquerque
Sandoval County Car Show and Flea Market returns for third year
For the third straight year, the parking lot of the Sandoval County Administration Building will be lined with classic, tricked-out cars as the county again hosts its annual Car Show and Flea Market. The event, hosted by the Sandoval County Employee Appreciation Committee, is set for Sept. 28. According to a press release from Sandoval […]
Posted inCongress & Federal Gov., New Mexico Statewide News, Westside Albuquerque
The politics of immigration play differently along the US-Mexico border
By Morgan Lee, Associated Press SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) — The politics of immigration look different from the back patio of Ardovino’s Desert Crossing restaurant. That’s where Robert Ardovino sees a Border Patrol horse trailer rumbling across his property on a sweltering summer morning. It’s where a surveillance helicopter traces a line in the sky, […]
Posted inLocal Gov.
Advocates who’ve lost someone to overdose gather in NM to create change
By Daniel Montano, KUNM About 50 people from across the country met at Albuquerque’s Uptown Sheraton hotel over the weekend with one common thing uniting them: All had lost a loved one to overdose. Something else they shared was a passion to fight the opioid crisis. The smell of fresh brewed coffee and breakfast pastries […]