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County called to the carpet

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 […]

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County called to the carpet

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 […]

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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 […]