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Santa Fe Opera brings down curtain on near-record season
10. September 2014
Morning Word: King ‘Latino heart’ video makes the rounds
10. September 2014
Because they are different
09. September 2014
I have a 17-year-old black friend, let’s call him K., who, with his family, used to live in the East Mountains and then Albuquerque. Now he is a freshman at Chandler/Gilbert Community College, where he won a scholarship. On Sunday night, Aug. 24, a little after midnight, he was riding a scooter back from a friend’s home to his apartment. He was neatly dressed and carrying a daypack.
“I was riding on the sidewalk because there was no bicycle lane,” he told me later. “I wasn’t doing anything wrong.” A Gilbert policeman drove past him, apparently noticed he was black, then did a U-turn and came back. The policeman, who was white, stopped K...
Continue reading...Bernalillo County opts for pot, tax questions on ballot
09. September 2014
SF County Commission to consider pot question like Bernalillo County
09. September 2014
10. September 2014
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