{"id":1927,"date":"2006-06-27T23:31:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/albahquerque\/a-poke-in-the-eye-with-a-sharp-stick\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T16:31:32","slug":"a-poke-in-the-eye-with-a-sharp-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/albahquerque\/a-poke-in-the-eye-with-a-sharp-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poke in the Eye with a Sharp Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems I misunderestimated Don Harris. Somehow, I had the impression he is a Right Wing whacko out to “Take Back The Courts.” He seemed to be a student of Karl Rove when he smeared his opponent last fall. And, yet, here he is, doing something I don’t find disgusting — in fact, I thank him for his efforts. <\/p>\n

In my own tiny way, I’ve been waging this battle for a while. I’ve posted a few pictures of the grotesqueness businesses will shove in your face — ah, the beloved unfettered Market. Recently, I’ve gathered a few photos under the category “alBAHquerque” (here<\/a> and at Flickr<\/a>) — so far, I am the only one to use that tag. With luck, it will become historical documentation of just how stupid we were and how we sometimes stand up to the Market. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABQjournal: Councilor Wants Cell-Phone Towers to Blend With Their Surroundings<\/a> Journal Staff Report<\/p>\n

Irritated by massive cell-phone towers?<\/p>\n

City Councilor Don Harris wants to do something about it.<\/p>\n

He said Friday that he plans to introduce an ordinance requiring that towers in Albuquerque be concealed to limit their impact on the environment.<\/p>\n

“One of the things that makes Albuquerque great is our vistas,” Harris said in a written announcement. “We must act now before our landscape is forever changed.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under his bill, new wireless telecommunications towers would have to be concealed when they are constructed. Existing towers would have five years to comply with the ordinance.<\/p>\n

ABQjournal: Can You Hear Me Now? Hide That Cell Tower<\/a> Abqjournal Editorial<\/p>\n

Nobody ever comes back from vacation saying “you should have seen the cell-phone towers.” Nobody flashes photos of their kids standing next to one. Nobody lobbies to get one in their backyard.<\/p>\n

Why would they? While most of us use a cell phone [mjh: I do not]<\/span>, we don’t want to look at all the hardware that makes it work. A New Mexico sunset loses a little something when viewed through a forest of metal poles.<\/p>\n

Albuquerque has a chance to become the cell-tower city different, a place where towers are heard and not seen, under a proposal by City Councilor Don Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems I misunderestimated Don Harris. Somehow, I had the impression he is a Right Wing whacko out to “Take Back The Courts.” He seemed to be a student of Karl Rove when he smeared his opponent last fall. And, yet, here he is, doing something I don’t find disgusting — in fact, I thank … Continue reading A Poke in the Eye with a Sharp Stick<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albahquerque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}