Reminded by Coco’s trenchant observations on the politics of impact fees, I’ve a question: of all those new home permits being issued in the metro area, what proportion is in multi-home developments, and what proportion is in single-lot infill around the city’s fringes? My anecdotes tell me infill is going gangbusters right now, but I …
More evidence that Steve Lawrence is wrong: dinner at Los Equipales, on Jefferson a block south of Central. Yum. Thanks for the tip, J_M.
Avelino Maestas blogs live from Silver City. Some peak oil there, plus, more importantly, “peak water.”
Congratulations to Albuquerque distance runner Brandon Leslie, who scored a fourth place finish Sunday at the U.S. half marathon championship.
As I’ve mentioned before, the coolest aspect of my job is having carte blanche to call up smart people and make them explain stuff too me. Today’s case in point is Paul Polechla, the University of New Mexico’s aquatic mammals expert. When I saw what I thought might be a beaver dam a couple of …
Coco explains why Corrales et al. weren’t really suburbs of Albuquerque back in 1750. Suburban-style development grew around existing villages after the first and second world wars as agriculture declined and land was sold or lost to taxes.
My friend George, who commutes to work by bike very early in the morning, has seen beavers in the bosque a couple of times, at dawn on the west end of the Alameda Bridge where the Corrales drain empties into the river. I’ve never seen ’em, though I’ve seen gnawed tree trunks many times. But …
There’s been much curiosity in our household about this Festival of Illumination thing. How will we certify that Albuquerque really has lit up 3 million (5 million?) luminarias to convince those Guiness World Record sticklers? Some sort of Santa-borne spy satellite? The honor system? Isabel Sanchez has the goods (sub. req.) in this morning’s paper: …
Riding down New Mexico 313 through Sandia Pueblo this afternoon, I was reminded of how beautiful New Mexico is. I was riding with a woman who’d just moved here from Tucson (no slouch of a city in terms of its desert beauty), and she kept noticing things I took for granted – a trio of …
Monahan on crime stats