Watching quite a bit of the 30-day New Mexico Legislative session online has been a bit like watching a long-running TV series in which the actors already know the show’s been cancelled. It has also reminded one of any family situation when things are economically tight. In other words, the acting on nmlegis.gov is tired and… Read More Watching Heads in the Sand: The NM Legislature’s 30 Days of Avoidance Strategy
I’ve had a full 24 hours now to salve my emotional wounds, seal some 26-inch tubes and look back on my failed attempt to conquer all 26 or so Burque brewpubs in a single day of bike riding yesterday. It was such an epic journey that it requires multiple posts, or at least my sore… Read More Burque Mega-Brewpub Bike Crawl II: A Tale of Two Goatheads
After a slow realization that Spring has started early in Burque, your humble blogger/bike tourer is catching up for lost bike rides with a purported tour today of EVERY SINGLE brewpub in the city limits of Albuquerque. What you ask? Is that even possible? How many do we have at this point? A million? It might… Read More The Burque Mega-Brewpub Bike Crawl, I: Route Plans and Empty Boasts
For those Burque cyclists who dare to ride among traffic in our fair city, there are many challenging intersections. One of the diciest, historically most dangerous and also important is MLK, Jr. Blvd. and Broadway. MRCOG data for 2008-2011 showed it to be so, and the corner was site to two cyclists deaths in separate… Read More Teaching Burqueans Danish at MLK and Broadway
Decades ago, well before the Age of Reality TV in which at least part of us live, there was a show called “Battle of the Network Stars.” Yes, if you actually check out the clip, that’s the voice of Howard Cosell and a chimpanzee wearing a sailor’s hat. “BotNS” might be the single most dated… Read More Anti-Battle of the Burque Traffic Stars
Ever year, the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) puts together and publishes analysis of proposed legislation having anything to do with education in the state. In recent years, these analyses have been available online and provide something of a glimpse not only into what PED itself thinks of legislative ideas, but insight into its policy… Read More NM Capital Outlay Reform and Schools: Let’s Play “What If?”
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