When a city councilor who represents some of the most impoverished areas of the city recently tried to update the city’s minimum wage law, she inadvertently created an opportunity for one of her colleagues to lower the city’s minimum wage for tipped employees. Councilor Nichole Rogers in an interview with City Desk ABQ said she […]
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E-bikes on trails, scooter rentals get city council’s approval
Albuquerque residents will soon be able to ride e-bikes on Open Space trails and may eventually see electric rental scooters around town thanks to two different pieces of legislation passed by City Council. The legislation will still need to be signed into law by Mayor Tim Keller. After a month-long summer break, city councilors spent […]
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Combatting the ‘not in my backyard’ attitude
The priorities of the South San Pedro Neighborhood Association wouldn’t be strange to other neighborhoods across Albuquerque: Increased safety and cleanliness, small business support, increased engagement with residents and elected officials. But its recent focus on housing solutions and services for those experiencing homelessness is less common. Affordable housing and overnight shelter projects often face […]
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Feds Seize Legal Weed at NM Checkpoints
By Josh Lee / The Paper. New Mexico’s cannabis businesses are already facing plenty of challenges as they navigate through a market fraught with oversaturation, overtaxation and growing pains in general. Now they have to deal with the federal government stealing their inventory. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents over the past two months, […]
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Don de Albuquerque
By Andy Lyman/The Paper. Photos by Roberto Rosales. Anyone living in Albuquerque who doesn’t at least recognize Don Schrader either hasn’t been around long enough or isn’t paying attention. His usually barely clothed, tan body is nearly as recognizable as the city’s skyline. There are few whose faces are plastered on postcards. Some might know […]
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Christmas de Los Caballos Parade Kicks Off Holiday Season on Nov. 19
The holiday season formally gets under way this weekend with the Christmas de Los Caballos Parade on Sunday, Nov. 19. The horses will hoof it down Corrales Road at 1 p.m., and the Corrales Fire Department kicks off its toy and food drive.
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The Atomic Age arrived by way of Bernalillo
With World War II still raging in the Pacific, anyone in Bernalillo awake in the wee hours of July 12 or July 13, 1945, would pay little heed to two short Army convoys passing heading south. Some in the caravan were military personnel, most notably a woman at the wheel of a dark-colored sedan in […]