On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) visited the widow of WWII Veteran Josephat Radosevich, Griselda Radosevich. Luján helped Radosevich’s family obtain their father’s WWII awards and medals they have been seeking since February 2023. “I was honored to meet with the widow of WWII Veteran Josephat Radosevich, Griselda Radosevich to celebrate her birthday […]
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District Attorney, Sheriff hold South Valley town hall to discuss crime
The county’s top law enforcer and the Second Judicial District Attorney hosted a town hall meeting Wednesday in the South Valley to discuss crime with residents. Concerns about bail reform opened and closed the meeting. They plan on hosting more town hall meetings in the future. The next scheduled meeting will be on the Westside […]
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No-Confidence vote goes nowhere, again
The City Council also heard from the Albuquerque Police Department about its findings in the investigation into Chief Harold Medina’s crash. Read our coverage of that discussion here. It was a no vote for a vote of no confidence leveled against the Albuquerque Police Chief at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. Councilor Louie Sanchez sponsored the […]
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APS facing $2.5M budget cut
With enrollment declining in Albuquerque Public Schools, Board of Education members are looking for the best way to spend the district’s money and improve student outcomes. At Wednesday’s meeting, board members asked administrators about budget plans, programs and their effectiveness. Tutoring programs Board Member Courtney Jackson had questions about Paper, an online tutoring program designed […]
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APD finds Chief Medina’s crash was not preventable and not criminal
The Albuquerque Police Department’s Fleet Crash Review Board and its Fatal Crash Unit have reviewed the chief’s actions leading up to him running a red light and crashing into another vehicle while fleeing the sound of gunfire. They determined the crash was not preventable and he should not be criminally charged, members of APD told […]
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Commentary: Supreme Court Program Allows Students to Learn About the Judicial Process
This letter is provided as opinion/commentary from the author. You can submit your own letter to editor@sandovalsignpost.com Submitted by Justice David K. Thomson, Office of the Courts This year is the 60th anniversary of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. President John F. Kennedy proposed this legislation in 1963, but he was assassinated before […]
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Letter to the Editor: Intel Needs a Better Way of Managing Emissions
Submitted by Barbara Rockwell, Placitas resident and the author of “Boiling Frogs, Intel vs. the Village” Intel plans to use a new version of the old oxidizers/incinerators, emission control technology in its new expansion, a technology that is now more than thirty years old. Burning off the emissions was always unreliable resulting in breakdowns that […]
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Commentary: Supreme Court Program Allows Students to Learn About the Judicial Process
This letter is provided as opinion/commentary from the author. You can submit your own: editor@citydesk.org Submitted by Justice David K. Thomson, Office of the Courts This year is the 60th anniversary of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. President John F. Kennedy proposed this legislation in 1963, but he was assassinated before its enactment. […]
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Don de Albuquerque
By Andy Lyman/The Paper. Photos by Roberto Rosales. Anyone living in Albuquerque who doesn’t at least recognize Don Schrader either hasn’t been around long enough or isn’t paying attention. His usually barely clothed, tan body is nearly as recognizable as the city’s skyline. There are few whose faces are plastered on postcards. Some might know […]
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County seeking consultant for opioid settlement funding
Bernalillo County and the City of Albuquerque — along with global health organization Vital Strategies — are seeking a short-term consultant to help plan how to spend millions of dollars in opioid settlement funds. The money was awarded as part of litigation brought by states and local political subdivisions against pharmaceutical distributors that inflicted damages […]