Opinion: Uballez campaign tactic not fair to career city employees

Letter to the Editor By Barbara L. Taylor. Taylor is the former Capital Implementation Program Official and former director of the Parks and Recreation Department in the City of Albuquerque Ideally election campaigns are about aspirations and solutions. Municipal government, more than any other level of government, provides services that touch people’s lives every day.  […]

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Op-ed: New Mexico needs strong heat safety rules for workers

Submitted by Albuquerque City Councilor Tammy Fiebelkorn  Every year, it gets hotter in Albuquerque. Summers stretch longer, temperatures climb higher, and extreme heat warnings become more frequent. What we’re experiencing is no accident, it’s the reality of climate change, unfolding right here in our city. This crisis doesn’t impact everyone equally. The people on the […]

Albuquerque’s Cooling Ordinance: A Good Start That Needs Strengthening

Nathaniel Matthews-Trigg, MPH, CEM is a founding board member of Healthy Climate New Mexico and a heat-health technical expert. He is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On August 1st, Mayor Tim Keller will participate in “Hotter Days, Smarter Ways: Innovative Strategies for Heat Resilience” at the Mayors’ Innovation Project 2025 conference. As mayors from across […]

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From Tijeras to the deep: MMA3 Thompson’s journey aboard USS Springfield

Submitted by American Connections Media Outreach NAVAL BASE GUAM – Before the ocean swallows the light and the hatch seals shut, every submariner carries one thing below the surface — their story. For Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel Thompson, a native of Tijeras, New Mexico, serving as a machinist’s mate (auxiliary), that story began in […]

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Laura Roberta Oney Jones

Laura Roberta Oney Jones, 70, a lifetime resident of NM, passed away May 28, 2025, in Albuquerque. NM.  Laura was born in Mountainair, NM on June 13, 1954 and lived on her grandfather’s ranch until she was 14-years-old.  She attended school in Mountainair, graduating in 1972. She then attended NMSU, graduating with both her B.S. […]

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Pennies from heaven

Corner to Corner by Diane Denish. Diane Denish is a lifelong advocate for children and a former lieutenant governor of New Mexico. Contact her at diane@dianedenish.com  I still pick up a penny when I see it on the ground, the sidewalk, the pavement or even on the stairs in a building. Seems like they catch […]

Dental school to open this month

Merilee Dannemann has been a reporter and columnist for the Taos News, Albuquerque Journalist and is now a columnist at her own www.triplespacedagain.com New Mexico is about to have a school of dentistry. That is potentially very big news.  Meanwhile, New Mexico has done apparently nothing to develop a program that was supposed to provide […]