Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry may have to wait to change the “sanctuary city” policy, as the first-term Republican termed it, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The city’s policy governing when law enforcement officers should ask about immigration status came about as the result of a 2007 lawsuit brought [...]
A story posted by the Albuquerque Journal reports that even without a public option or overhaul of Medicare, Sen. Jeff Bingaman believes a health care reform bill could bring “big benefits” to uninsured Americans.
Lea County has the highest percentage of adults who smoke in New Mexico, writes [...]
Guy Riordan, a former New Mexico State Game Commission Chairman and friend of Gov. Bill Richardson, has been banned from the securities industry for life and fined $1.5 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, reports the Albuquerque Journal.
Riordan, as you may recall, factored in the [...]
“Soft landings” is how the Albuquerque Journal characterizes the contracts Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration gave to two members of his cabinet after they left those public jobs.
The contracts – which some might characterize as “thank-yous” – given to former Information Technology Secretary Roy Soto and former Workforce Solutions Secretary [...]
Another money manager with ties to New York and New Mexico state investment scandals has pleaded guilty to bribing state officials in New York in exchange for a $250 million investment from that state’s pension fund, the Albuquerque Journal reports today.
“Elliott Broidy, founder and chairman of Markstone Capital Group, [...]
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Albuquerque mayor-elect Richard Berry will be sworn in today at 6 p.m. at the Albuquerque Convention Center. (New City Councilors Mike Cook and Dan Lewis will also be sworn in.) As the Albuquerque Journal notes today, the team of department heads that Berry has chosen show plenty of experience, but diversity? [...]
Minutes after a houseboat piloted by Gov. Bill Richardson’s chief of staff Brian Condit had crashed into another boat Sept. 5, a woman called 911 to report: “The people who are driving it are drunk.”
So writes Tom Cole in the Albuquerque Journal today, pushing the story about the [...]
Media coverage of University of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert’s conduct in a recent game is sexist, two University of New Mexico faculty members say in an Albuquerque Journal opinion piece today.
Had Lambert been male, her conduct would have been seen as natural athletic aggression, examples of which [...]
This is a guest blog by Tyler Taylor, M.D., who has a solo, patient-focused medical practice in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The piece was written in response to Sunday's op-ed in the Albuquerque Journal North by Carol Miller.
As a member of Physicians for a [...]
When Javier Gonzales was named chairman of the state Democratic Party in September, I reported that he worked for Santa Fe Studios. Several of you e-mailed me at the time to ask what that was.
The Albuquerque Journal answered that question this weekend. It’s a taxpayer-funded project to build a [...]
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