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- The Associated Press says that
- APD chief Ray Schultz leaves with a "mixed legacy."
Since 2010, the city has seen more than two dozen officer-involved shootings — 19 of them fatal, although those numbers have slowed in apparent response to police reforms in 2011 and 2012.
The department also has been plagued by allegations of excessive force, including several cases caught on video. And several officers have been reprimanded for questionable social media postings, including one by an officer involved in a fatal shooting who described his occupation as “human waste disposal.”- Jerry Ortiz y Pino
- says he believes the behavioral health audit and resulting suspension
- look like an effort to privatize mental health in New Mexico. He was so worked up about it, he ended up going to the hospital with high blood pressure.
- The Republican Governor's Association
- passes along the news story in People magazine about Martinez and how she takes care of her sister
- who has cerebral palsy.
- Steve Terrell
- brings up a valid possibility
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This comes about a week after another "soft" feature about the governor, the Albuquerque Journal's sad story about Martinez losing her father as well as six pets in the past six months.
Is this just a coincidence, or is this someone's conscious effort to soften the gov's image?- And this:
@Gov_Martinez has recently landed in the pages of People and the Economist. Expect more and more questions about 2016. #nmpol
— Dan Boyd (@DanBoydNM) July 30, 2013- Martinez
- declared a state of emergency because of the storm that hit Albuquerque this past weekend
- .
- The storm
- cost the city of Albuquerque around $1 million
- . This doesn't even include damages in other cities and towns around Albuquerque.
- Pat Davis
- resigned from the leadership of Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers
- after a weekend DWI.
- Media news:
- Some very sad media news, as former Albuquerque Journal reporter
- Mike Taugher died this weekend while snorkeling in Hawaii
- . According to John Fleck, Taugher reported on environmental issues for the Journal from 1995-2000.
- Tourism spending
- rose for the third straight year in New Mexico
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- President Barack Obama
- nominated a Navajo woman
- to be U.S. surgeon general.
- Albuquerque poet laureate Hakim Bellamy
- joined the Weekly Word podcast
- this week. As a special bonus, he agreed to read a couple of poems on the podcast.
- The EPA will
- hold a meeting in Questa on discharges from a Chevron mine into the Red River
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According to information from the EPA, changes from the 2006 permit would include the elimination of one “outfall,” or discharge point, and the addition of another, as well as revised quality-based limits for several other outfalls to bring them in line with state water quality standards.The permit sets limits for pollutants including arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc. According to an EPA fact sheet, the state Environment Department requested the EPA include monitoring requirements for seven “key” contaminants of concern: aluminum, fluoride, manganese, molybdenum, sulfate, zinc and pH.
- Doña Ana County voters
- will go to the polls to decide four bond and tax questions
- . The Las Cruces Sun-News:
On the ballot is a proposal to raise sales taxes countywide by 1/4 of 1 percent (an extra 25 cent charge on a $100 purchase) for three projects: paying to run a proposed new 911 call center; paying to run a built-but-not-yet-opened Crisis Triage Center for the mentally ill; and paying a subsidy for county ambulance service.
Also, three bond questions are on the ballot: a $6 million measure to build a new countywide 911 center, an $800,000 measure to finish building a facility for dogs and cats seized in hoarding and abuse cases; and a $1 million measure for improvements to the county-owned fairgrounds west of Las Cruces.- KOB writes that
- ABQ Ride doesn't believer the U.S. Census Bureau report
- that only two percent of commuters use public transportation to get to work.
- Tell us how you really feel about the anti-abortion petition that will likely make it to the October ballot in Albuquerque,
- V.B. Price
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Chances are this blatantly sexist, sinister, anti-woman initiative will make this city election one of the most hotly contested since the 1970s.
- Curry County officials will review the county's inmate release program after
- just one has been released in the seven months the program has been in effect
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