By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ Bernalillo County Commissioners Tuesday voted to send the matter of whether a county employee broke a code of conduct to an ethics board. The 4-1 vote means a complaint against deputy county treasurer Linda Stover goes forward to the Bernalillo County Code of Conduct Review Board. The complaint alleges […]
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Pat Davis is the founder and publisher of City Desk ABQ. In a prior life he served as an Albuquerque City Councilor.
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BernCo Commission refers deputy treasurer to ethics board
By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ Bernalillo County Commissioners Tuesday voted to send the matter of whether a county employee broke a code of conduct to an ethics board. The 4-1 vote means a complaint against deputy county treasurer Linda Stover goes forward to the Bernalillo County Code of Conduct Review Board. The complaint alleges […]
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East Mountain High is a Finalist for National Award
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 […]
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Diamond Tail Solar Project Approved Despite Local Opposition
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 […]
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County called to the carpet
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 […]
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County called to the carpet
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 […]
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City hopes pallet home wrap up lines up with new operator
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 […]
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City hopes pallet home wrap up lines up with new operator
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 […]
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ABQ city clerk celebrates drop in records request backlog
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 […]
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ABQ city clerk celebrates drop in records request backlog
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 […]