Bernalillo County Commission Updates

County Commissioner Eric Olivas, who represents the East Mountains and neighborhoods in Albuquerque’s Far Heights and foothills. His office provided the following updates to recent legislation before the commission. FR 2023-112  One-Time Appropriations Passed 3-2 Sponsored by Commissioner Olivas this resolution allocated nearly $20 million from surplus county general fund dollars to many one-time projects in Bernalillo […]

Heinrich Announces New Gun Legislation

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led a press conference this week to discuss his newly introduced legislation, the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act (GOSAFE) Act. The GOSAFE Act is new legislation designed to protect communities from gun violence by regulating firearms based on the lethality of their internal mechanisms, as opposed to focusing on cosmetic features […]

Truck Driver Who Killed Brothers Unlikely to Face Charges

Brothers Brad Gunter, 42, and Chad Gunter, 47, blacksmiths and co-owners of popular restaurant, Ribs BBQ in Cedar Crest, were killed Nov. 9 after a semi-truck veered off I-40 near mile marker 193, headed southeast toward N.M. 333 at a high speed and slammed into their blacksmith shop at 111 Corvin Court near Moriarty. Torrance County […]