Author Archives | Richard Barish
Richard Barish is an attorney in private practice in Albuquerque. He is a long-time volunteer for the Sierra Club. He has been Bosque Issues Chair of the Central New Mexico Group of the Sierra Club for over 25 years and has been actively involved in efforts to restore the Rio Grande. He has been involved in open space issues and was a primary proponent of the quarter cent gross receipts tax for the acquisition of open space that Albuquerque voters passed in the 1990s. He has been involved in fair trade issues, serving on the national Sierra Club responsible trade program committee, and he served several stints as the Political Chair of Central Group.
Bulldozing Public Trust in the Bosque
In an extraordinary display of disdain for the wishes of the public he nominally represents, Mayor Richard Berry ordered a trail to be plowed through the Bosque on Tuesday. Although not literally done in the dead of night, the Mayor could not have been more secretive. The Mayor's intentions for the design of the trail were never disclosed, and the plans to begin construction on Tuesday were never divulged, but were only discovered by accident after construction had already begun. The Mayor reneged on the City's promise to allow the public to review and comment on specific design options before a final plan was selected...
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13. February 2015
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