Suburbs?
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.
Archive of posts filed under the New Mexico category.
Beavers in the Bosque
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 …
Our Festival of Getting Lit Up
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: …
Fresh Eyes
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 …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Monahan on crime stats
Becoming a World Class City
Via Rich Burridge, an interesting experiment: how many Taco Bells within 10 miles of you? With their store locator, I found just 15. Rich found 23 around his house, but a little searching found as many as 51 (Hollywood and Manhattan). 15? That’s pathetic. Albuquerque can do better. All we need to become a world …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
In which I get to dabble in the great issues of the day (sub. req.), involving aluminum tubes and the like: Wilson said in an interview that analysts from Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratory were part of a team of Department of Energy nuclear experts who concluded that a key piece of evidence— high-strength …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Some nuke news in this morning’s paper (sub. req.). The state of New Mexico’s proposed WIPP permit modification is out. It goes along with a Department of Energy request to reduce waste testing requirements, and allows shipment of remote-handled waste (this is the stuff that is much more radioactive) to go forward.
Richardson and Baseball
A nice little bit of business this morning (sub. might be req.) by my colleague Toby Smith about Bill Richardson’s baseball career: Over time, draft status became part of Richardson’s political persona. His official campaign biography in 1982, when he first ran for Congress in New Mexico’s 3rd District, concludes: “In 1966, he was drafted …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
On continued funding (sub. req.) for some nuclear weapons research programs that have not performed up to snuff: Members of Congress last week called for an independent investigation into a Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear weapons project that is 18 years behind schedule and more than $250 million over budget. But funding for the project …