Riva Duncan is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. She is vice president of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters. By Riva Duncan, Guest columnist. You probably don’t see wildland firefighters on the job because they usually work in remote areas. But with wildfires moving […]
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Posted inAlbuquerque, Local Gov.
Uballez shifts strategy for mayoral race, says public financing ‘isn’t working’
Former US Attorney Alex Uballez announced Friday at a press conference in Barelas that he has qualified to be on the ballot for Albuquerque mayor and that his campaign will be privately financed. Uballez said he has collected enough signatures to appear on the ballot in November and thanked volunteers for the support he has […]
Posted inAlbuquerque, Courts, Justice & Safety
Albuquerque smoke shop owner arrested for murder of shoplifting suspect
An Albuquerque smoke shop owner was arrested for murder Thursday afternoon after fatally shooting an alleged shoplifter fleeing his store. According to Albuquerque Police and court records, officers were called to a car fire in a parking lot at San Mateo Blvd. and Lomas Blvd. NE about 3:10 pm Thursday and removed a male driver […]
Posted inAlbuquerque, Arts & Culture
Purloined paintings returning to New Mexico
A pair of paintings stolen decades ago have been found and returned home to New Mexico. Starting Friday, they’ll be on display so the public can view the pieces once thought to be gone forever. The works — “Aspens,” by Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp’s “Oklahoma Cheyenne” — were stolen from the Harwood Museum […]
Posted inEast Mountains, Local Gov.
Tijeras Village Council to discuss well repairs
The Tijeras Village Council will discuss repairs needed at one of its wells when it meets at 6 p.m. Monday. The repairs needed at well 3 are anticipated to cost around $25,000. Well 3 is a relatively new well that was constructed using capital outlay funds and a grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation […]
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Interior Secretary will be coming to New Mexico
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will be visiting New Mexico in June and is expected to give the keynote address at the Western Governors Association meeting in Santa Fe. The WGA’s annual meeting is scheduled for June 23 and 24. After his address, Burgum will meet with the seven governors who will be in […]
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Posted inNational News, Syndicated
Trump’s clemency spree extends to ex-gangster, rapper, former congressmen
By Emily Davies — A gang leader who built a powerful criminal enterprise, an ex-congressman from New York who underreported earnings from his Manhattan restaurant and a Connecticut governor toppled in a corruption scandal all received clemency Wednesday in a sweeping series of orders signed by President Donald Trump. Trump extended relief to 25 people […]
Washington Post
Posted inNational News, Syndicated
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
By Lauren Weber, Caitlin Gilbert — Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday. Of the 522 footnotes to scientific research in an initial version of the […]
Posted inBernalillo County, Courts, Justice & Safety
Inmate dies at Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center
An inmate at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) died Wednesday morning, despite life-saving efforts by staff and medical personnel. According to a press release from Bernalillo County, the inmate was a 45-year-old female who had been booked into MDC on Monday morning at approximately 6 a.m. Early Wednesday, around 5:30 a.m., she was […]
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How reliable was your electric utility in 2024?
Officials from the Public Service Company of New Mexico say electricity was available for the average customer more than 99% of the time last year, however, there were outages, including ones in the East Mountains, Clayton, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Las Vegas. The three investor-owned electric utilities in New Mexico presented reliability metrics to the […]