Bernalillo County is moving toward not penalizing employees for off-duty cannabis use. County commissioners Tuesday agreed to publish a proposed resolution that, if approved, would amend its drug and alcohol-free workplace policy to eliminate sanctions for employees’ use of cannabis outside of work hours. The changes would effectively treat off-duty cannabis use the same as […]
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City launches grant program to help business owners pay for property improvements
Some Albuquerque business owners will now be able to get money to help improve their properties. The Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency (MRA) on Tuesday launched its Renovate & Reinvest grant program to reimburse eligible business owners for improvement projects. The program was announced in a news release stating eligible applicants include properties in the five metropolitan […]
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City launches grant program to help business owners pay for property improvements
Some Albuquerque business owners will now be able to get money to help improve their properties. The Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency (MRA) on Tuesday launched its Renovate & Reinvest grant program to reimburse eligible business owners for improvement projects. The program was announced in a news release stating eligible applicants include properties in the five metropolitan […]
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New county manager starts Wednesday
Cindy Chavez will be on the job Wednesday as Bernalillo County Manager. It’s a homecoming of sorts for the Alamogordo-born Chavez, who has spent much of her career in California, most recently serving as an elected member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Chavez was chosen in June to replace Julie Morgas Baca, […]
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New county manager starts Wednesday
Cindy Chavez will be on the job Wednesday as Bernalillo County Manager. It’s a homecoming of sorts for the Alamogordo-born Chavez, who has spent much of her career in California, most recently serving as an elected member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Chavez was chosen in June to replace Julie Morgas Baca, […]
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Key takeaways from Tuesday’s Homeless Coordinating Council meeting
The Homeless Coordinating Council — consisting of members from the city, Bernalillo County and the University of New Mexico — met Tuesday. The council was created to generate ideas that might bolster programs and services for the homeless population in the Albuquerque metro area and to back a variety of housing initiatives. Here are three […]
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Key takeaways from Tuesday’s Homeless Coordinating Council meeting
The Homeless Coordinating Council — consisting of members from the city, Bernalillo County and the University of New Mexico — met Tuesday. The council was created to generate ideas that might bolster programs and services for the homeless population in the Albuquerque metro area and to back a variety of housing initiatives. Here are three […]
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Enchanted Vision Art Show set for this weekend
Submitted by Carole Eagleheart Beth Waldron loves crows. She feeds them peanuts at her home in Corrales and they appear in her paintings, splashed with bold colors. Waldron is one of 34 local artists featured at the third annual Enchanted Vision Art Show this weekend at the Unitarian Universalist Westside Congregation in Rio Rancho. “I […]
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The illogic of asylum seeker detention
About once a month, several volunteers from Albuquerque and Santa Fe travel to one of New Mexico’s immigrant detention prisons. They are from VIDA, Volunteers for Immigrants in Detention Albuquerque (abqvida.org). They go to provide comfort and solace for incarcerated asylum seekers who are mostly abandoned in a prison where conditions are miserable. They are […]
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Election aftermath demands journalistic reset
Two words, “according to,” may be the most important words in any news story you read. Journalists are trained to seek out the best, most knowledgeable sources. As a business writer I had certain go-to people I could call who knew their stuff, had their fingers on good data, and could give me an accurate, […]