As Tip O’Neill never said, “All politics is loco.”
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28 metros have a shot at joining the million-plus club – The Business Journals
Albuquerque is expected to grow from 918,876 at the start of 2013 to 1 million on Sept. 21, 2018.
28 metros have a shot at joining the million-plus club – The Business Journals
As evidenced by today’s paper, Abqjournal is no longer a “news”-paper but solely an advertising deliver mechanism designed to enrich it’s appallingly conservative owner. We mostly subscribe for the comics, the puzzles, and the letters to the editor. I will not look at ads this long weekend.
We recycled enough metal to fill our truck bed. We took it to a company that has acres of scrap destined for recycling instead of the landfill. And got $47 for our trouble (plus a dollar and some change).
If you go to Acme in Albuquerque and you have copper or aluminum, stop at the shed on the far left across the lot from the cashier. Have the precious stuff weighed first. Drive large loads of less precious metal to the south side of the cashier up onto the left scale stopping at the second window for instructions. Then, wait in line with others. Eventually, you’ll turn around and back up towards a crane with a monstrous claw. You can help the workers pull everything out into a big pile, then drive out. Stop on the other scale until you get a thumbs-up, then go to the cashier for your reward.
If you earn any money from billboards, you’re despicable. Billboards are a needle in the eye of decent people and dollar signs in the eyes of people who don’t give a damn about others or about beauty. Clear enough?
If you haven’t been to Alameda Greenhouse, you’ve missed a local treat. Pansies are in for the next 3 weeks or so for $16 per flat (36 plants). The pansies we planted last September lasted into June of this year, but winter is their season.
You’ll also find cool season veggies, including some pots with several varieties of salad greens.
There’s still time to go to one or more of the many growers’ markets around Albuquerque (and elsewhere). This morning, we went to the one in the 1200 block of Central, across from Presbyterian (which sponsors this one) and just east of I-25. There were about a dozen vendors. We bought two pounds of roasted green chiles grown in Lemitar (tasty though not as hot as advertised). We also heard the braeburn apples will be in next week.
This particular market will be there each Tuesday, 7am to noon, until the last Tuesday in October (10/30).
See http://farmersmarketsnm.org/ for locations and times.
Speaking truth to power, but power is deaf. mjh
Pearce wrong about Little Bear firefighting efforts | NMPolitics.net
By Ellen Wedum ? 7/03/12, 9:57 am ? Commentary
Ellen Wedum
If Congressman Pearce thinks that the U.S. Forest Service should be able to respond to fires faster than on foot, he and his fellow Republicans should stop cutting the Forest Service budget.
There’s a lot of misinformation being spread about the initial efforts to contain the Little Bear fire. I have pieced this account together mostly from the online log available on the USFS website.
“Monitoring” is a totally inadequate term to describe the efforts that were made to contain the fire during the first five days.
Pearce wrong about Little Bear firefighting efforts | NMPolitics.net
