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As we enter the third year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, House Speaker Mike Johnson and congressional Republicans are dithering on aid as if the United States will never need allies again. As if Russia is our new best friend. As if he’ll be Speaker forever. Johnson, a politician and not a military man, has […]

On Feb 27, an abandoned movie theater and a vacant building that was once a bar off of Coors and Paseo was transformed into training grounds for some of New Mexico’s law enforcement officers. What made this training unique was that many of the police participating in the training exercises were not humans, they were […]

Commentary by Pat Davis, City Desk The website mannyforsenate.com still promotes Manny Gonzales III’s one-month campaign as a Republican candidate for US Senate in Washington D.C. The campaign Facebook page he used last month to announce his failure to qualify for that race still bears the URL ending in “MannyforABQ,” an apparent holdover from his […]

Albuquerque Public Schools will have less money to work with next fiscal year, but it is working on ways to lessen the disruption in services, budget officials told the Board of Education Wednesday evening. District officials have said the budget will drop from $2.167 billion for the current fiscal year to about $1.9 billion for […]

Roadrunner by the numbers: Dana Yost was named the president and CEO of Albuquerque-based Roadrunner Food Bank in August 2023. He comes to the city from Tucson, Arizona — a state where he worked in the food bank industry for 13 years.  In just a handful of months at the helm, Yost said he’s noticed […]

On Christmas Eve in 2014, a family member returning home from church found Idali Reyes’ body dead in her South Valley home. Two suspects were arrested shortly thereafter but a third, Jesus Alberto Chacon Morales, was never located. But that all changed Wednesday afternoon when the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department announced that Chacon Morales had […]

Bernalillo County Commissioners discussed how to get a handle on the future of the Mountain View Neighborhood area, accepted close to $1 million to keep the national supply chain moving and approved an agreement to upgrade the call buttons in cells at the Metropolitan Detention Center during their regular meeting held Tuesday, March 5. Getting […]

Downtown business and property owners will likely see some fresh faces at their doors this month. The city — through its Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency (MRA) — is on a mission to collect the email addresses of Downtown stakeholders through face-to-face contact in order to build better relationships and communication.  The emails would be used to […]