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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Rodd Cayton Bernalillo County officials Tuesday will unveil the first draft of its South Coors Boulevard Sector Development Plan. According to a county news release, the goal is to establish  mixed-use centers along Coors — a major Westside thoroughfare — enhancing housing diversity, economic opportunities and promoting a safer, multi-modal streetscape. The plan outlines […]