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By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ Bernalillo County firefighters now have a therapeutic option available to many other county employees. County commissioners Tuesday night approved a change to the memorandum of agreement between the county and the local firefighters union that removes cannabis from the list of substances tested for in random drug screenings. Union […]

By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ Bernalillo County Commissioners Tuesday voted to send the matter of whether a county employee broke a code of conduct to an ethics board. The 4-1 vote means a complaint against deputy county treasurer Linda Stover goes forward to the Bernalillo County Code of Conduct Review Board. The complaint alleges […]

By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ Bernalillo County Commissioners Tuesday voted to send the matter of whether a county employee broke a code of conduct to an ethics board. The 4-1 vote means a complaint against deputy county treasurer Linda Stover goes forward to the Bernalillo County Code of Conduct Review Board. The complaint alleges […]

By Independent Staff East Mountain High School was named a Building Hope IMPACT Awards finalist last week. According to a press release, the Building Hope Awards celebrate the transformative power of education through four award categories: Community Engagement, Educational Innovation, Student Empowerment and the S. Joseph Bruno Model Charter Award, which has East Mountain High […]

By Independent Staff East Mountain High School was named a Building Hope IMPACT Awards finalist last week. According to a press release, the Building Hope Awards celebrate the transformative power of education through four award categories: Community Engagement, Educational Innovation, Student Empowerment and the S. Joseph Bruno Model Charter Award, which has East Mountain High […]

By Kevin Hendricks Despite fervent opposition from local residents, the Sandoval County Commission last week gave the green light to a controversial solar power and battery storage development in the East Mountains.  The 3-2 vote on Feb. 18 approved a zoning request that allows the Diamond Tail solar and storage project to proceed. The Diamond […]

By Kevin Hendricks Despite fervent opposition from local residents, the Sandoval County Commission last week gave the green light to a controversial solar power and battery storage development in the East Mountains.  The 3-2 vote on Feb. 18 approved a zoning request that allows the Diamond Tail solar and storage project to proceed. The Diamond […]

By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ The Bernalillo County Commission has a few more days to convince the New Mexico Department of Justice that commissioners didn’t break state law when they went into a closed-door meeting.  Earlier this month, the department’s Governmental Counsel and Accountability Division sent a letter to commissioners asking for an explanation […]

By Rodd Cayton, City Desk ABQ The Bernalillo County Commission has a few more days to convince the New Mexico Department of Justice that commissioners didn’t break state law when they went into a closed-door meeting.  Earlier this month, the department’s Governmental Counsel and Accountability Division sent a letter to commissioners asking for an explanation […]

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 […]