Interested in making our city a better, more informed place? Know or want an excuse to know more about local transportation, education and other issues? Willing to share that interest via the ever-amorphous, oft-frustrating and never fully satisfying internet? Better Burque was never intended to be a one-horse interwebs town and this is a call… Read More Wanna Make Better Burque Better? Call For Contributors
After extensive planning (and noted here a few weeks back), Albuquerque’s Department of Municipal Development (the road people) has announced bike improvements on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard from University Avenue to Broadway Boulevard. This is a big deal. Traffic and other aspects of MLK make it a favorite East/West route to/from downtown and UNM for… Read More Burque Goes Green and Turns Danish
Like most things, it’s more complicated than it might appear. On a simple level, you have a health-care facility, a beacon of healthy living incarnate, suggesting it needs more places for people driving cars to park at the expense of people riding bikes. On a simple level, it sounds amazingly ill-conceived. But it’s more complicated… Read More Presbyterian’s Plan to Turn Silver Avenue Into Parking: The Simple and Not-So-Simple
It happens. You’re so busy trying to sell PARCC to another state, or desperately trying to not lose yet another state as client. Or you’re off at another “Chiefs for Change” conference, trying to stay as nationally visible, just in case, Just. In. Case., a Republican takes the White House. Or maybe it seems that… Read More Refreshing Hanna Skandera’s Memory: “Paraging” the PARCC
Sit back, grab a very large cup of coffee. Better make it a carafe. Here’s my DCF post concerning my “Rapid Ride” yesterday, 21st Century music, modern relationships and batter backups. Enjoy. Oh, here’s a photo taken of Central and Girard that didn’t make the cut, but includes public art, an old rapid ride bus,… Read More ART for Art’s Sake: Duke City Fix Post, 3.29.16
What does it mean to be a creative male these days? How are we guys, in that antiquated, mythologically “binary” sense, supposed to act, feel and express ourselves? Jim Harrison might be summed up as “an author,” but he will be remembered as much, if not more, for the depth and breadth of his passions as for… Read More Jim Harrison and the Creative Male Dream
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