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ABQ Free Press, April 20, 2016 VOL III, Issue 8, April 20 – May 3, 2016 Serving Up Journalistic Justice Since 2014 Gary Seeks Higher Office PAGE 5 N.C. Transgender Bathroom Bill Was Trojan Horse PAGE 9 Geeking Out On Felicia Day PAGE 20 Beer Town’s Pub Stop at Freight House PAGE 24 Nursery Rhyme & Reason PAGE 16 2 • April 20 – May 3, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS ABQ FREE PRESS • April 20 – May 3, 2016 • 3 NEWS www.freeabq.com EditoR’S A&E Pick Editor: [email protected] Arts: [email protected] News: [email protected] Special ABQ Free Press Pulp News Enrollment COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF On Twitter: @FreeABQ On Facebook: facebook.com/abqfreepress A&E: Three to See is on Now! Strapped for cash app’s cached Wikipedia articles dominated on-and-off debates about them. If you’re flying over about circumcision, however Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley left an area where dinosaur bones researchers at Queen’s University [Page 19] his wallet in Tuscaloosa when he Editor have been discovered, you can say the one-third of men around I turned 26 headed off for his beach house. Dan Vukelich #MattersOfTheArt read about that. Curious about the world who are circumcised So his aides sent a state police (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 and my parent’s why the river below you bends for health or religious reasons On grants, AirDance, helicopter to fetch it, at a public the way it does? The app will aren’t missing out. Associate Editor, News health plan cost of about $4000. “I requested Dennis Domrzalski GoN, GQN tell you that as well, according (505) 306-3260 gave me the boot. they deliver my wallet, I didn’t to the magazine. The app was Privacy know how they were going to developed with the help of a Another computer giant has Managing Editor/Arts Editor do it,” Bentley told AL.com. “I small grant from the Smithsonian decided to stand up to the feds Samantha Anne Carrillo did not request that a helicopter Institution. in protection of your privacy. (505) 345-4080 ext. 804 was used. You have to have your Microsoft has filed a lawsuit Online Editor [Page 21] wallet for security reasons. I’m Uninstall challenging the routine issuance Juani Hopwood #novel #werewolves the governor. And I had to have Yet another program is joining of “secrecy orders” that prohibit (505) 345-4080 ext. 816, [email protected] Author talks monsters, money. I had to buy something to Java 6 and Windows XP as the company from telling you eat. You have to have identifica- Circulation Manager software you don’t want running your emails are being surveilled. Steve Cabiedes ‘Mongrels’ tion.” Bentley is facing impeach- on your PC. Wired reported that The Microsoft complaint, filed in (505) 345-4080 ext. 815 ment in an unrelated sex scandal. the security firm Trend Micro federal court in Seattle on April Design and the U.S. Department of 14, says it’s “unconstitutional” Airplane app Terry Kocon, C.S. Tiefa Homeland Security are advising for the government to force be Photography If you’ve ever gazed blankly all Windows users to uninstall Microsoft not to tell you when [Page 23] from an airliner at the landscape Apple’s QuickTime for Windows federal agents access or view Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Labreche, passing below, the terrain will as soon as possible. A flaw in your information. “We appreciate Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm #NMFilmFocus get more interesting if you QuickTime for Windows can that there are times when secrecy Staff Reporter download a new free app called allow attackers to gain control around a government warrant Rene Thompson On hoaxes, celebs Flyover Country. The app uses of a PC running it. The advisory is needed,” Microsoft President Contributors this issue and extras your smartphone’s GPS to cross does not affect Mac users. Brad Smith wrote in a blog post. Ty Bannerman, Lisa Barrow, Gary Glasgow, Heath Haussamen, reference coordinates with “But based on the many secrecy Juani Hopwood, Ariane Jarocki, Dan Klein, Karie Luidens, geologic and paleontological fea- Sensitivity orders we have received, we Andy Lyman, Ian Maksik, Nina Martin, Joe Monahan, tures, according to a review by Canadian researchers have found question whether these orders Sayrah Namasté, M. Brianna Stallings, Richard Stevens, Smithsonian magazine. Sitting in the penises of circumcised men are grounded in specific facts Rene Thompson, Christa Valdez your window seat, you can peer are just as sensitive as those that truly demand secrecy. To Copy Editors down on natural features like of uncircumcised men, UPI the contrary, it appears that the Wendy Fox Dial, Jim Wagner be wellnm.com glaciers and man-made features, reported. Theories about sen- issuance of secrecy orders has Off the Grid such as mines, and read the sitivity, health and ethics have become too routine.” Sales Representatives (505) 345-4080 Abby Feldman x802 BY SAMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO THE PLACE TO SHOP, COMPARE AND BUY HEALTH INSURANCE. Affordably. Cory Calamari x810 Sherri J. Barth x813 ABQ Free Press Local Briefs Office Administrator BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF Brianna Stallings (505) 345-4080, Ext. 817 Life is full of changes, it’s the one thing you can count on. two weeks to councilors. said. Intel’s Rio Rancho chip Published every other week by: APD brass But the need for health insurance in New Mexico remains Councilor Diane Gibson recently plant employed 2,300 people at Great Noggins LLC The Albuquerque City Council P.O. Box 6070 has blasted APD, saying its lead- the beginning of 2015 – down the same. Everyone must be covered. If you’ve lost your is scheduled to vote in May on Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 ers haven’t appeared interested from 5,500 in the mid-2000s. The whether to hold the Albuquerque in meeting the requirements of new cuts will reduce the Rio Publishers health insurance over the past 60 days, or experienced Police Department’s command the settlement agreement, which Rancho workforce to 1,900. Intel Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich staff financially accountable if some change in your life like a new baby, losing a job, or says the department has to be hasn’t made an investment in the department fails to make Cover Illustration in “substantial compliance” the Rio Rancho plant since 2009, turning 26, we’ll help you find affordable health insurance or progress in meeting the goals of Gary Glasgow by November with 270 reform and there has been speculation its settlement agreement with the re-evaluate your financial assistance options. Visit us online measures. it could soon close the facility, Courtesy of Raven Chacon U.S. Department of Justice. The which opened in 1980 and is too council’s Finance & Government at beWellnm.com, call us at 855.996.6449, or visit us in Intel woes small to retrofit. Intel said it will Corrections policy: he closing date for artist and composer Raven Chacon’s solo exhibition Operations Committee voted It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct inform affected employees over person. Be healthier, be happier, be insured at beWellnm. 5-0 to approve a resolution to According to two city councilors, errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors Tat Jonson Gallery rapidly approaches. In conjunction with the “Lightning the next 60 days about whether at the email addresses on this page. Speak” retrospective, a performance of Chacon’s composition “Drum Grid” is withhold retention bonuses and Intel’s Rio Rancho plant will lose they’ll have jobs. The workforce scheduled for April 29 at UNM. Devoted readers may recall our interview with pay raises from the command 400 jobs as part of the company’s reductions will save the company Chacon. If not, refresh your memory at bit.ly/LightningSpeak staff if APD fails to make prog- plan to cut 12,000 jobs worldwide $750 million this year and $1.4 On Friday, April 29, from 1 to 2 p.m., more than 20 members of massive local ress in meeting the goals of the by mid-2017. The new cuts rep- Where to find billion a year by mid-2017, Intel ensemble Death Convention Singers will congregate at the center of UNM’s DOJ settlement agreement. The resent 11 percent of its total work our paper? said. The company was criticized Main Campus. For one hour, the drummers will play a game of percussive resolution also requires APD to force. Intel is trying to transform List of more than by Wall Street for failing to move “telephone,” wherein noise traveling from players closest one another name one person to spearhead itself “from a PC company to more aggressively into mobile 550 locations provides a compositional framework. Learn more about this immersive the compliance effort and to one that powers the cloud and while chip sales for PCs were in a at freeabq.com IRL concert at bit.ly/UNMDrumGrid report on progress every billions of smart, connected com- puting devices,” the company multi-year decline. NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • April 20 – May 3, 2016 • 5 Gary Johnson Makes Second Run for the White House BY ANDY LYMAN NM POLITICAL REPORT n a room filled with about 100 people, a mix of stu- Idents and older adults, Gary Johnson signs pocket U.S. Constitutions, takes selfies with young people and kisses the cheek of at least one child. Johnson just finished an hour-long forum at the University of New Mexico hosted by Young Amer- icans for Liberty. Some of the older people in the crowd ask about his family and reminisce about his tenure as governor of New Mexico.
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