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 […]
Posted inFederal Government & Congress
Trump suggests he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press, NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy, voicing for the first time support for a specific limit on the procedure. The Republican former president has taken credit for striking down a federally guaranteed right to abortion by […]
Posted inFederal Government & Congress, Housing & Homelessness, Local Government
Homeless sobering center would take pressure off emergency rooms
When an intoxicated homeless person needs to get sober, they often end up in one of Albuquerque’s emergency rooms. But officials say it’s an untenable situation that places a further strain on already stressed health care workers and maxed out ERs. The city hopes to alleviate some of the load through a new medical sobering […]
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Public safety townhall will be held in South Valley on Wednesday
Two of the county’s top cops are holding a townhall meeting in the South Valley Wednesday evening. Second Judicial District Attorney Sam Bregman and Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen will hold the meeting in order to allow residents to provide their input on the future of law enforcement in the county. “Your voice matters, and this […]
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Trump casts immigrants as “poisoning the blood” of America
By WILL WEISSERT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The video shared by former President Donald Trump features horror movie music and footage of migrants purportedly entering the U.S. from countries including Cameroon, Afghanistan and China. Shots of men with tattoos and videos of violent crime are set against close-ups of people waving and wrapping […]
Posted inCourts & Justice, Federal Government & Congress, Westside Albuquerque
Watch: APD horse-mounted cops chase down shoplifter
Shoppers outside a West Central Walgreens got a vision of old-fashioned wild west law enforcement last week. Officers from APD’s horse-mounted unit were on patrol near Coors and Central on March 20 when an employee of a nearby Walgreens alerted them to a man who had just shoplifted from the store. Three officers (and their […]
Posted inCourts & Justice, New Mexico Statewide News
Fined and stripped of his marijuana license, Dineh Benally keeps on growing
This story is republished from Searchlight NM, a nonprofit news outlet, as a part of our commitment to bringing you the best in independent news coverage that matters to Albuquerque. By Ed Williams / Searchlight New Mexico Three months ago, New Mexico issued a $1 million fine to embattled Navajo marijuana grower Dineh Benally and […]
Posted inCommunity News
Planting for Pollinators
Pollinators are essential for the health and growth of our gardens. Two of the most important pollinators are bees and butterflies, both of which have declining populations due to urban growth and less vegetation for food. Bees Bees are beneficial to our yards because they pollinate our plants. Bumblebees and honeybees each have distinct traits […]
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Getting Rid of Garden Pests
Many commercial nursery and greenhouse operations have a continual routine of spraying with pesticides, virucides, fungicides, fertilizers and PGRs (Plant Growth Regulators) to bring perfect, lush and consistent products to retail garden stores and the consumer. Road’s End Farm and Nursery located between Edgewood and Moriarty doesn’t follow that approach and is a bee and […]
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