The City of Albuquerque has still not fulfilled a public records request submitted May 3rd, and I’m starting to get pissed off. Over the past few years, I’ve requested and received police crash and supplemental investigation reports on cases involving pedestrian fatalities. Readers will recall reference to those provided reports in stories appearing here. Similar… Read More CABQ: What’s Causing Delay in Fulfilling My Public Records Request?

They and Rod Stewart say every picture tells….you know the rest. And the screengrab above very much tells a story, one with many twists, turns, and what-have-you’s (to quote the immortal bard) in terms of many things, including current and future non-motorized transportation in the SW Mesa. But like The Dude, I’m struggling to tie… Read More Santolina Picture: Now What’s the Story?

One of Albuquerque’s “Top Ten Most Unwanted” cycling adventures has been captured transformed through a delicious “road buffet” of restriping. Up to now, cycling west of the very nice roundabout at merge of Menaul and Indian School Blvds. to Rio Grande Blvd. has been a harrowing trip of speeding drivers hot-rodding on what amounted to… Read More City Gets Indian School Restriping Right

Few single words raise more ire in our beloved Middle Rio Grande Valley than “Santolina.” For many, particularly down in my neck of the South Valley woods, it’s a curse word, an expletive that locally replaces all seven of the words George Carlin discussed way back when. But let’s talk Santolina. Yeah, I’ll even use… Read More Santolina 1.0 Already Happened: 1999-2018