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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City-owned apartments still awaiting repairs
By Elizabeth McCall, City Desk ABQ About a month after Albuquerque city councilors grilled Mayor Tim Keller’s office for asking some residents to move out of a city-owned, low-income apartment complex due to the building’s deterioration, maintenance upgrades are still on hold. The City Council questioned the Keller administration during a Jan. 23 meeting after […]
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City-owned apartments still awaiting repairs
By Elizabeth McCall, City Desk ABQ About a month after Albuquerque city councilors grilled Mayor Tim Keller’s office for asking some residents to move out of a city-owned, low-income apartment complex due to the building’s deterioration, maintenance upgrades are still on hold. The City Council questioned the Keller administration during a Jan. 23 meeting after […]
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BernCo Commission to consider bringing back weed killing chemical
Bernalillo County Commissioners Tuesday will consider allowing certain herbicides back into the county’s weed-killing toolbox. A proposed revision to the county’s Integrated Vegetation Management and Maintenance Plan would allow the use of products containing glyphosate — a weed killer — ending a moratorium in place since 2019. Commissioners in 2019 dropped those products, citing concerns […]
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BernCo Commission to consider bringing back weed killing chemical
Bernalillo County Commissioners Tuesday will consider allowing certain herbicides back into the county’s weed-killing toolbox. A proposed revision to the county’s Integrated Vegetation Management and Maintenance Plan would allow the use of products containing glyphosate — a weed killer — ending a moratorium in place since 2019. Commissioners in 2019 dropped those products, citing concerns […]
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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 […]
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BernCo’s new weed policy could cause revenue complications
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 […]
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BernCo’s new weed policy could cause revenue complications
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 […]