Health Yeah! Mobile Health Unit Offers Limited Service Over the Holidays

The Bernalillo County School-Based Mobile Health Clinic, Health Yeah!, will offer limited free health services to the community over the holiday break.  The Mobile Health Unit will provide services at Los Vecinos Community Center on Dec. 23, 26 and 27. The following week services will be provided at Westside Community Center on Dec. 30 and […]

A migrant caravan just set out from Mexico. Why that’s no longer a crisis.

By Mariana Morales, Mary Beth Sheridan · The Washington Post (c) 2024 TAPACHULA, Mexico – At the stroke of midnight Wednesday, around 1,000 migrants set off on foot from this southern Mexican city, heaving backpacks, clutching water bottles, balancing toddlers on their shoulders. Everyone wanted to reach the U.S. border – preferably before Donald Trump is sworn […]

A migrant caravan just set out from Mexico. Why that’s no longer a crisis.

By Mariana Morales, Mary Beth Sheridan · The Washington Post (c) 2024 TAPACHULA, Mexico – At the stroke of midnight Wednesday, around 1,000 migrants set off on foot from this southern Mexican city, heaving backpacks, clutching water bottles, balancing toddlers on their shoulders. Everyone wanted to reach the U.S. border – preferably before Donald Trump is sworn […]

City Council set to have packed agenda for last meeting of the year

Albuquerque city councilors will likely have an extensive agenda for their last meeting of the year, but are expected to consider several key bills, including proposals for tax increment financing, a new business licensing system, cooling requirements for rental properties and encampment regulations.  Downtown TIF Two proposals to implement tax increment financing (TIF) for Downtown […]

City Council set to have packed agenda for last meeting of the year

Albuquerque city councilors will likely have an extensive agenda for their last meeting of the year, but are expected to consider several key bills, including proposals for tax increment financing, a new business licensing system, cooling requirements for rental properties and encampment regulations.  Downtown TIF Two proposals to implement tax increment financing (TIF) for Downtown […]

Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences in sweeping clemency grant

By Leo Sands, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 more convicted of nonviolent crimes, the White House announced on Thursday, describing it as “the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.” The people whose sentences will be commuted were placed […]

Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences in sweeping clemency grant

By Leo Sands, Meryl Kornfield · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 more convicted of nonviolent crimes, the White House announced on Thursday, describing it as “the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.” The people whose sentences will be commuted were placed […]

Trump sides with dockworkers preparing to strike over automation

By Lauren Kaori Gurley, Ian Duncan · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump offered his support to dock workers Thursday as a mid-January strike deadline looms that threatens to bring commercial shipping on the East and Gulf Coasts to a halt days before he takes office. In a post on his social media platform Truth […]

Trump sides with dockworkers preparing to strike over automation

By Lauren Kaori Gurley, Ian Duncan · The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump offered his support to dock workers Thursday as a mid-January strike deadline looms that threatens to bring commercial shipping on the East and Gulf Coasts to a halt days before he takes office. In a post on his social media platform Truth […]

Housing for those with behavioral health problems gains county support

Bernalillo County Commissioners gave their support this week to an emerging initiative that would provide housing and care for thousands of New Mexicans with behavioral health issues, substance use disorders and/or brain injuries who often face institutionalization or incarceration. Supporters of a behavioral health Medicaid waiver say such individuals end up straining public resources, because […]