Patrick Davis

By Independent Staff East Mountain High School was named a Building Hope IMPACT Awards finalist last week. According to a press release, the Building Hope Awards celebrate the transformative power of education through four award categories: Community Engagement, Educational Innovation, Student Empowerment and the S. Joseph Bruno Model Charter Award, which has East Mountain High […]

By Kevin Hendricks Despite fervent opposition from local residents, the Sandoval County Commission last week gave the green light to a controversial solar power and battery storage development in the East Mountains.  The 3-2 vote on Feb. 18 approved a zoning request that allows the Diamond Tail solar and storage project to proceed. The Diamond […]

By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ The Bernalillo County Commission has a few more days to convince the New Mexico Department of Justice that commissioners didn’t break state law when they went into a closed-door meeting.  Earlier this month, the department’s Governmental Counsel and Accountability Division sent a letter to commissioners asking for an explanation […]

By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ The Bernalillo County Commission has a few more days to convince the New Mexico Department of Justice that commissioners didn’t break state law when they went into a closed-door meeting.  Earlier this month, the department’s Governmental Counsel and Accountability Division sent a letter to commissioners asking for an explanation […]

By Damon Scott, City Desk ABQ It’s been almost a year since the city announced plans to use $5 million in opioid settlement money to build a pallet home campus for 50 people experiencing homelessness who are also in recovery from opioid and other substance use disorders.  Located at 3401 Pan American Freeway NE just […]

By Damon Scott, City Desk ABQ It’s been almost a year since the city announced plans to use $5 million in opioid settlement money to build a pallet home campus for 50 people experiencing homelessness who are also in recovery from opioid and other substance use disorders.  Located at 3401 Pan American Freeway NE just […]

By Elizabeth McCall, City Desk ABQ While a local transparency expert applauds Albuquerque’s City Clerk’s Office’s initiatives to reduce its backlog of public records requests — which the office receives thousands of each month — she says “there shouldn’t be any backlog at all.”  The City Clerk’s Office received 14,000 public records requests under the […]

By Elizabeth McCall, City Desk ABQ While a local transparency expert applauds Albuquerque’s City Clerk’s Office’s initiatives to reduce its backlog of public records requests — which the office receives thousands of each month — she says “there shouldn’t be any backlog at all.”  The City Clerk’s Office received 14,000 public records requests under the […]

By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ Bernalillo County firefighters could be brought under new rules that permit off-duty cannabis use, though there’s a small chance it could put the county’s ambulance license at risk and cost $900,000 a year in ambulance revenue. On the agenda for Tuesday’s County Commission meeting is a change to the […]

By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ Bernalillo County firefighters could be brought under new rules that permit off-duty cannabis use, though there’s a small chance it could put the county’s ambulance license at risk and cost $900,000 a year in ambulance revenue. On the agenda for Tuesday’s County Commission meeting is a change to the […]