The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico is suing the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) alleging that an officer with the department’s DWI Unit did not have justification to arrest a man on a drunken driving charge. The officer in question was among those under investigation by the FBI regarding an alleged scheme involving […]
Author Archives: Andy Lyman
Andy Lyman is an editor at nm.news.
He oversees teams reporting on state and local government. Andy served in newsrooms at KUNM, NM Political Report, SF Reporter and The Paper. before joining nm.news in 2023.
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Voters in Nov. will get a say in approving millions in bonds
As Bernalillo County voters prepare to cast their ballots, there are more choices to make than deciding who should be the next president or local legislators. Six county ballot questions will ask voters to consider approving the issuance of $40.5 million in general obligation bonds. Of that total, $8.8 million is planned for public safety […]
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Voters in Nov. will get a say in approving millions in bonds
As Bernalillo County voters prepare to cast their ballots, there are more choices to make than deciding who should be the next president or local legislators. Six county ballot questions will ask voters to consider approving the issuance of $40.5 million in general obligation bonds. Of that total, $8.8 million is planned for public safety […]
Posted inAlbuquerque, Housing & Homelessness
City says it will break ground soon on pallet home project
City officials said this week that a 50-unit pallet home project announced in the spring — a transitional recovery housing campus — would break ground in the next couple weeks and be completed in early 2025. The project site is located near Candelaria Road and Pan American Freeway NE. The campus is intended to […]
Posted inAlbuquerque, Housing & Homelessness
City says it will break ground soon on pallet home project
City officials said this week that a 50-unit pallet home project announced in the spring — a transitional recovery housing campus — would break ground in the next couple weeks and be completed in early 2025. The project site is located near Candelaria Road and Pan American Freeway NE. The campus is intended to […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
He was ‘Mr. Walz’ to them, and they want D.C. to know he’s for real.
By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post (c) 2024 “Mr. Walz.” That’s who was on that big debate stage Tuesday night. “Mr. Walz built the set for my senior play,” Andrea Johnson, one of Gov. Tim Walz’s former high school students, told a crowd of about 150 people who gathered to watch the vice-presidential debate and […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
He was ‘Mr. Walz’ to them, and they want D.C. to know he’s for real.
By Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post (c) 2024 “Mr. Walz.” That’s who was on that big debate stage Tuesday night. “Mr. Walz built the set for my senior play,” Andrea Johnson, one of Gov. Tim Walz’s former high school students, told a crowd of about 150 people who gathered to watch the vice-presidential debate and […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
Vance probably ‘won’ the debate. But Walz might have gained more.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 A lot of the conventional wisdom has it that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a better vice-presidential debate than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night. And instant post-debate polling suggests that’s more or less how swing voters saw it. But the same polling paints a […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
Vance probably ‘won’ the debate. But Walz might have gained more.
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 A lot of the conventional wisdom has it that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a better vice-presidential debate than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night. And instant post-debate polling suggests that’s more or less how swing voters saw it. But the same polling paints a […]
Posted inPolitics & Elections, Syndicated
Trump downplays U.S. troop injuries in 2020 Iranian attack as headaches
By Niha Masih, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Former president Donald Trump once again downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in 2020, describing them as “a headache,” in response to a questionat a campaign event in Milwaukee on Tuesday. Trump’s repeated […]