This letter is provided as opinion/commentary from the author. You can submit your own: editor@citydesk.org Submitted by Justice David K. Thomson, Office of the Courts This year is the 60th anniversary of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. President John F. Kennedy proposed this legislation in 1963, but he was assassinated before its enactment. […]
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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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County seeking consultant for opioid settlement funding
Bernalillo County and the City of Albuquerque — along with global health organization Vital Strategies — are seeking a short-term consultant to help plan how to spend millions of dollars in opioid settlement funds. The money was awarded as part of litigation brought by states and local political subdivisions against pharmaceutical distributors that inflicted damages […]
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Open space master plan open for comments
Bernalillo County wants the public’s thoughts on parts of the Parks, Recreation and Open Space Master Plan. HOW TO PARTICIPATE WHEN: 6:30 p.m. WednesdayWHERE: North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center at 7521 Caramel Ave. NE A public meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at the North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center. The purpose of this meeting is to […]
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WHAT TO EXPECT: APS board to discuss dropping enrollment
Enrollment in Albuquerque Public Schools is expected to drop — again — for the coming academic year. School board members will meet Wednesday to face numbers that show a projected enrollment of 64,995, down roughly 2% from the 66,321 students this year. Since 2016, enrollment will have fallen by 20,341 students (or about 23.8%), if […]
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WHAT TO EXPECT: No confidence vote in police chief on the table
A no-confidence vote in the police chief will be on the table for the Albuquerque City Council at its Wednesday regular meeting. Strike Out or Home Run Councilor Louie Sanchez has failed a couple of times to get a message of no confidence off the council table and onto the mayor’s office. The city’s Finance […]
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APD relaunches popular cold case series
After a brief hiatus, the popular crime series Duke City Case Files, has relaunched. After the Albuquerque Police Dept. launched the video series in 2021, the Homicide Unit solved four of the seven cold cases featured. The first case highlighted with the relaunch is the September 2021 homicide of 22-year-old Brittany Ramirez. Ramirez was left […]
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How does the mayor’s proposed budget stack up against last year’s?
Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller’s administration released a $1.4 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2025 on Tuesday. The 2.3% increase over last fiscal year focuses on big picture categories like public safety, housing, homelessness, behavioral health, jobs, the economy and more. The city said in a news release that the budget takes into consideration post-pandemic […]
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911 calls detail aftermath of police chief’s crash
On Feb. 17, Todd Perchert called 911. He’d just been hit by a black truck at the intersection of Alvarado Drive NE and Central Avenue. He was driving his gold 1966 Ford Mustang — which was his uncle’s and his dad’s before his. Struggling to talk, Perchert told the 911 operator that he had been […]