I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Four candidates for city council in Albuquerque qualified for public financing according to the city’s website. The deadline for qualifying for public financing was May 31.
The YWCA Middle Rio Grande and prominent Hispanic Democrats gathered Wednesday in downtown Albuquerque to condemn and call for the firing of a prosecutor who sent an e-mail they called racist. Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Diane Denish said Wednesday afternoon…
Former Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White was grilled on a range of issues by the Albuquerque City Council last night, before being confirmed as Albuquerque’s chief public safety officer. White was confirmed on an eight-to-one vote, with Councilor Rey Garduño dissenting.…
Mayor-elect Richard Berry’s choice for Albuquerque’s next Chief Administrative Officer won’t see smooth sailing when he comes before the City Council in early December for confirmation, if current positions among councilors hold.
Berry, who is a Republican, tapped a Democrat…
The development community appears to be targeting two of its most vocal opponents on the city council in hopes of gaining a development-friendly board, two Albuquerque city councilors charged Wednesday. Westland Development Co., a subsidiary of SunCal, has spent at least $10,000 on the race.
The Albuquerque City Council will soon take up the issue of whether a moratorium on impact fees makes sense given the new construction in the city over the last year. And it’s a subject that has already reignited a long-simmering debate about how to best manage development in New Mexico’s largest city.
City Attorney Bob White — a long-time appointee of Mayor Martin Chávez — says the Albuquerque City Council didn’t follow the legally prescribed timeline for the council’s recently approved Capital Improvement Program, meaning the mayor’s original proposal stands. Some city councilors are calling that a power grab.
The condition of Albuquerque’s fund for publicly financed elections is not as dire as recent speculation in the mainstream media might suggest. And City Councilor Rey Garduño has already pledged to seek more money for the fund if crowded fields of qualifying candidates make the Oct. 6 ballot.
Albuquerque’s new International District is official as of Thursday morning.
The area has often been denigrated as the “war zone” by the media and public at large due to a high…
Albuquerque City Councilor Rey Garduño, who represents District 6, is introducing a resolution at tonight’s City Council meeting to recognize the city’s Southeast Heights in and around Louisiana Boulevard between Central Avenue and Zuni Road avenues as the…
Residents of Albuquerque’s Southeast Heights want the rest of us, and particularly the media, to stop calling their neighborhood “the War Zone.” Revitalization efforts have long made that moniker a misnomer. Albuquerque City Councilor Rey Garduño and state Sen.…
