Cell Phone Towers – Albuquerque, NM
These are cell phone towers for Albuquerque, NM. Information is compiled from the FCC, and may not be all the towers in the area. Carriers are not known for 3rd party towers.
There seem to be 212 towers listed on these pages for the Albuquerque area alone. The first one is over 240 feet tall! Links to maps are conveniently provided for sightseers. Ugh. mjh
ABQjournal: Around Northern New Mexico
Council Approves Poet Laureate
Santa Fe city councilors approved the concept of having a poet laureate by giving the OK to the city Arts Commission’s long-range plan Wednesday.
A poet laureate is an official appointed by a government and often expected to compose for special occasions. Santa Fe’s post is intended to raise awareness about poetry and to promote literary arts.
The poet laureate would be charged with an educational mission. Special projects for the city poet could include public readings, writing workshops or work with Art Works, a city arts program for school children.
ABQjournal: Around Northern New Mexico
Council Approves Poet Laureate
Santa Fe city councilors approved the concept of having a poet laureate by giving the OK to the city Arts Commission’s long-range plan Wednesday.
A poet laureate is an official appointed by a government and often expected to compose for special occasions. Santa Fe’s post is intended to raise awareness about poetry and to promote literary arts.
The poet laureate would be charged with an educational mission. Special projects for the city poet could include public readings, writing workshops or work with Art Works, a city arts program for school children.
Classic Rove By Harold Meyerson
Rove did not become George W. Bush’s indispensable op only because of his strategic smarts. He’s also the kind of ethically unconstrained guy Bush has wanted around when the going gets tough — when the case Bush is making is unconvincing on its own merits, when he needs to divert attention from himself with a stunning attack on somebody else.
That’s been the hallmark of Rove’s career — and Bush’s. … Get in Bush’s way and Rove turns you or your loved ones into the scum of the earth.
You can go pretty far with this kind of modus operandi, particularly if the press is complaisant. Sometimes, you can go too far, as Joe McCarthy discovered when he leveled his woozy allegations against the Army. …
Rove was, and has always been, Bush’s one indispensable aide precisely, though not only, because he would do whatever it took to advance his boss’s interests, no matter the consequences to his intended targets or innocent bystanders. Though we can’t be certain it was Rove who disclosed Plame’s identity, we can be damned sure that if he did, it was all in a day’s work on behalf of George W. Bush.
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GOP on Offense in Defense of Rove By Jim VandeHei, Washington Post Staff Writer
Republicans mounted an aggressive and coordinated defense of Karl Rove yesterday ….
“The angry left is trying to smear” Rove, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, a Rove protege, said in an interview. …
The emerging GOP strategy — devised by Mehlman and other Rove loyalists outside of the White House — is to try to undermine those Democrats calling for Rove’s ouster, play down Rove’s role and wait for President Bush’s forthcoming Supreme Court selection to drown out the controversy, according to several high-level Republicans. …
Mehlman, who said he talked with Rove several times in recent days, instructed GOP legislators, lobbyists and state officials to accuse Democrats of dirty politics and argue Rove was guilty of nothing more than discouraging a reporter from writing an inaccurate story, according to RNC talking points circulated yesterday.
“Republicans should stop holding back and go on the offense: fire enough bullets the other way until the Supreme Court overtakes” events, said Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.). …
Wilson was a chief target of the new GOP offensive designed to take some pressure off Rove. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) said the White House did not have to discredit Wilson. “Nobody had to do that,” he said, adding that “he discredited his own report” by including unfounded allegations. The RNC talking point memo included a list of anti-Wilson lines.
“In all honesty, the facts thus far — and the e-mail involved — indicate to me that there is not a problem here,” said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah). “I have always thought this is a tempest in a teapot.”
ABQjournal: Ridgetop Mansion Questioned By Laura Banish, Journal Staff Writer
The bulldozers clearing the way for a 23,000-square-foot mansion on top of a summit in the Sierra del Norte neighborhood may be digging toward controversy. [The mansion plus a 3000 square foot guest house are being built on four lots by Santa Fe mutual fund manager Andrew Davis, another caring rich person.]
Some area residents contend that the city’s rules regarding development on ridgetops and foothills are intended to prevent large homes from being built on the city’s prominent peaks. Santa Fe city staff say the purpose of the ordinance is really to restrict development in the city’s Escarpment Overlay District by controlling the height, architectural style color, grading and landscaping of structures.
“I think many of us found it surprising that even with this law on the books, it is still possible to permanently alter the Santa Fe skyline without any public debate,” George Johnson, a member of the board, said.
The Land Use Code states that “the interest and welfare of the people of the city is to restrict development in the Escarpment Overlay District to preserve the aesthetic beauty and natural environment of the ridgetop areas of the foothills and to protect the mountain views and scenic vistas from the city to the extent possible.”
Johnson said he became aware of the construction a little over a week ago when he looked out of his back yard and saw that the top of one of Santa Fe’s northern hills had been “chopped off.” …
[T]he house will total 23,105 square feet to include several ample bedrooms, a library, his and her studies, a game room, children’s play room and fitness area with luxuries such as interior reflecting pools, roof-top gardens and a 15-by-20-foot wine cellar with a barrel vaulted ceiling.
Homeless people are welcome to camp anywhere on the property at any time. “We really feel for them,” Drew Davis never said.
[A] necropsy on the alpha male of the Iris Pack, found dead in May along U.S. 60 near Vernon, Ariz., shows he was shot.
Killing a Mexican gray wolf is an Endangered Species Act violation punishable by a criminal penalty of up to $50,000 and one year in jail and/or a civil fine of up to $25,000.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other groups are offering up to $46,000 in rewards for information leading to the conviction of the killer.
To pass on information, call the service in Albuquerque at 346-7828 or the New Mexico Game and Fish Department at (800) 432-4263.
CTV.ca | U.K. police hunt for fifth suspect: report
Police in Britain are searching for the mastermind of the London attacks….
The British Broadcasting Corp. said police were hunting for a fifth man connected to the attackers, but not involved in the bombings. The report was not confirmed by police.
Police? You mean the Brits aren’t going to respond to these attacks by bombing one country, invading another, setting up extraterritorial prisons, shipping suspects off to others for torture, curtailing citizens rights and insulting anyone who questions their response? Wow. What a country. mjh