Presbyterian’s Plan to Turn Silver Avenue Into Parking: The Simple and Not-So-Simple

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

April 6, 2016 Scot KeyLeave a comment

Refreshing Hanna Skandera’s Memory: “Paraging” the PARCC

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

March 31, 2016 Scot Key1 Comment

ART for Art’s Sake: Duke City Fix Post, 3.29.16

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

March 29, 2016 Scot KeyLeave a comment

Jim Harrison and the Creative Male Dream

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

March 28, 2016 Scot KeyLeave a comment

Jack Nicholson, Hanna Skandera and the Case of the $18m APS Shortfall

Your humble blogposter used to write almost exclusively about public K-12 education in New Mexico, but it became, for me, at least a tiny bit like that last scene of Polanski’s “Chinatown.” No, it didn’t include anybody getting shot and wasn’t filmed on rain-slicked streets in an Art Deco Los Angeles. Yet the famous last… Read More Jack Nicholson, Hanna Skandera and the Case of the $18m APS Shortfall

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 Scot Key2 Comments

Taking a Tape Measure to Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART)

While Monday night’s more than four hours of discussion and debate over Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) at the City Council meeting had a bit of yelling and screaming, it was by and large a fairly sedate affair. It also provided some real chances to learn about the historical context of ART and why Central Avenue is going to… Read More Taking a Tape Measure to Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART)

March 23, 2016 Scot Key1 Comment

Better Burque

Sides and undersides of ABQ on a bike

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