This is the view overlooking Peniche, Portugal. What does this fabulous coastal island panorama have to do with you writing for Better Burque? Well, in approximately 36 days (that’s 864 hours or 51,840 minutes, by the way) Scot can be found somewhere in the seaside tableau above, early in his approximately 50 day attempt to bicycle… Read More Call for Better Burque Contributions: Bike Tour Edition

Photo: Not Scot, but this guy/event, although my platform also includes mandated wearing of hats as shown in this photo. by Scot (Cross-posted from Duke City Fix) Don’t worry. I’m not running for Mayor. For one, rather important, thing, I don’t live in the city limits. Not that this has necessarily stopped mayoral candidates in the… Read More Scot’s Mayoral Platform, 2017

by Scot There has been much whining, history and more whining here and elsewhere about the fact that Interstate 25 between Coal and Rio Bravo has been one of two walls between sections of Barelas, South Broadway neighborhoods (or “East Barelas”), and other parts of town. To whine and complain without thoughtful solutions is pointless,… Read More Bridging Burque’s “Border Wall”: Kathryn Avenue

by Scot While New Mexico’s Governor Nero fiddles about unnecessary furloughs and metaphorically continues to fling gubernatorial beer bottles out the 5th Floor window of the Eldorado Hotel, other states are getting to work toward solving solvency and infrastructure problems. Gas Tax Hike Fever (GTHF) has reached epidemic proportions all over the country, including a… Read More Gas Tax Hike Fever: Catch It!

by Scot (My Duke City Fix piece for this Monday cross-posted) DCF readers who have glanced over at my other bloglette, Better Burque, know I’ve been obsessing researching lately how Interstate 25 served to further isolate Barelas, San Jose and nearby neighborhoods already bisected years earlier by the railyards/train tracks. The arrival of steam trains… Read More Toward Solving Albuquerque’s “Border Wall”: A Bit of Barelas Background

by Scot I’ve been accused, rightly, that my posts tend to be too long on words and too short on everything besides the words. With that in mind, as well as the axiom that “A picture is worth a thousand words,” below is the equivalent of a 7,000-word bloviation on how to best fix the figurative… Read More Albuquerque’s “Border Wall,” II: A Proposed Solution in Seven Screenshots