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VOL I, Issue 14, October 22, 2014 Still FREE After All These Months DOJ Made Us Buy AR-15s, APD Says PAGE 5 Joe Monahan: Why Negative TV Ads Work Judge Candidate PAGE 6 Is Traffic Ticket Magnet PAGE 9 Will New Police Board Be Toothless? PAGE 10 VALERIE PLAME SPEAKS OUT ON SUSANA, GARY PAGE 7 PAGE 2 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS www.freeabq.com www.abqarts.com ABQ Free Press Pulp News Editor: [email protected] COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF VOL I, Issue 14, October 22, 2014 Still FREE After All These Months Associate Editor, News: Dennis Domrzalski Ebola’s threat psychotic killers. The latest example is (505) 306-3260 “Twisty the Clown,” a killer clown on Associate Editor, Arts: Outside of West Africa, the United the FX show “American Horror Story.” [email protected] States, France and the United Kingdom “We do not support in any way, shape Advertising: are most at risk for the spread of the or form any medium that sensational- [email protected] IN THIS ISSUE Ebola virus, but they also are best izes or adds to coulrophobia, or clown [email protected] equipped to contain it. China and India fear,” the group’s president, Glenn [email protected] are less likely to see infected persons Kohlberger, told the Hollywood On Twitter: @freeabq because of lack of travel connections Reporter. Kohlberger’s 2,500-member to West Africa, but if they do, their organization may be fighting a losing NEWS huge populations and poor health battle. In the 1970s, Chicago mass Editor systems could leave them open to ABQ Free Press Pulp News .............................................................................................................Page 2 murderer John Wayne Gacy, who Dan Vukelich mass infection. “Doctors and nurses in dressed up as “Pogo the Clown” as a APD’s AR-15 purchase called “borderline illegal” ............................................................................ Page India, too, often don’t wear protective (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 5 hobby, boasted, “Clowns can get away gloves,” Peter Pot, who discovered and Ebola updates...................................................................................................................................Page 5 with murder.” Associate Editor, News named the virus, told the Guardian COVER STORY: Ex-spy Valerie Plame on the state of N.M. politics .............................................. Page 7 newspaper. “They would immediately Dennis Domrzalski become infected and spread the virus.” Bypass cable (505) 306-3260 Metro Court candidate already knows her way around courthouse ................................................Page 9 HBO will offer stand-alone streaming Associate Editor, Arts Free speech doubts follow UNM “Sex Week” apology ..................................................................Page 10 of its programming in 2015 – meaning Insuring risk Stephanie Hainsfurther Will new APD ‘s new oversight board be better than the last? ......................................................Page 10 viewers can bypass cable and satellite Insurance companies are develop- (505) 301-0905 channels. “All in, there are 80 million Increasingly dry Rio Grande bodes ill for Valley’s future ...............................................................Page 11 ing pandemic business disruption homes that do not have HBO, and we insurance products for the healthcare Design will use all means at our disposal to go industry in response to the spread of Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa after them,” HBO CEO Richard Plepler Ebola out of Africa and the D68 Entero- told an AOL Time Warner investor virus across the United States. Since the Photography OPINION meeting. Another threat to cable and SARS pandemic of 2009, the insurance Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio satellite looms in the form of a new APD’s pattern of records denials will cost us all ...............................................................................Page industry has been crafting products to Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm 4 TiVo-like device. Roamio’s OTA box insure against business-disease-related Joe Monahan on politics: The power of negative political ads .........................................................Page 6 allows users to collect over-the-air TV disruption in the travel and hospitality Contributors this issue signals and record network shows, as Susana’s transparency? Yeah, right .................................................................................................Page 8 industries. Sabrina Autry, Pat Davis, Dennis Domrzalski, well as plug in to Hulu, Netflix and the Barry Gaines, Thomas Grover, Jeffry Gardner, APD veteran on why mental-health question must pass ..................................................................Page 8 like via the Internet. The device will sell Pastor-B-Gone Betsy Model, Joe Monahan, Richard Oyama, Letters...............................................................................................................................................Page 8 for $50 at Best Buy. Laura Paskus, Peter St. Cyr An Alabama church has sued its pastor What Gov. Martinez has done for N.M. .......................................................................................Page 15 to go away. The Shiloh Missionary Fusion to go Copy Editors Baptist Church of Montgomery filed Lockheed Martin has announced it has Jim Wagner suit against the Rev. Juan McFarland, plans to test within a year a fusion Wendy Fox Dial who refused to step down despite reactor small enough to eventually fit having confessed to using drugs and Advertising ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE onto the back of a truck. The company having sex with church members has determined it is feasible to build Greta Weiner, (505) 345-4080, Ext, 803 Calling All Pets...............................................................................................................................Page 15 after contracting AIDS, the New York a 100-megawatt reactor measuring Sherri J. Barth (505) 261-5686 Daily News reported. Church board Music: Pray for Brain tours the world.............................................................................................Page 18 7 feet by 10 feet, about 10 times smaller Donavan Mosley (505) 345-4080, ext. 806 members allege McFarland, who has Music: Spotlight on “Hamlet” opera ...............................................................................................Page than current reactors, a company Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 19 not commented, changed the locks of Music Briefs: Escort brings back the 70s, “We Are the In Crowd” comes to Sunshine .................Page the church and put bank accounts in spokesman told Reuters. Lockheed Published every other week by: 19 his name. Martin went public with the project in Theater: UNM’s spooky offering, “The Monkey’s Paw” .................................................................Page 20 hopes of attracting a funding partner to Great Noggins LLC offset a decline in military spending. P.O. Box 6070 Theater Briefs: Four picks for right now.........................................................................................Page 20 Spongebob Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 It expects to market the device within Arts & entertainment events .................................................................................................. Page 21-23 The U.S. Army and civilian scientists five years. Publishers Crossword Puzzle..........................................................................................................................Page are collaborating to develop new ways 24 Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich to stop the bleeding from battlefield Banning breaks wounds. Bandages now in use already are coated with anticoagulants de- Researchers at the University of Corrections policy: signed to stop bleeding. A new product Arizona have found that a virus on an It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct 5 18 19 20 in development is a syringe that can office doorknob can spread to up to 60 errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors inject tiny sponges into small wounds. percent of the surfaces in a building at the email addresses on this page. When they come in contact with blood, within a few hours. The experiment, the sponges swell to fill the wound which used a harmless but traceable virus, found that the place viruses space and stop bleeding. Where to find spread fastest is the office break room. our paper? When workers used a hand sanitizer List of more than LOL when entering an office building and 400 locations The president of Clowns of America used cleaning wipes at their desks at freeabq.com International has complained that periodically during the day, the through movies and TV shows, amount of surface contamination On the cover: Valerie Plame, a former CIA operative turned author, has been active in New Mexico politics since moving Hollywood has made clowns out to be dropped by 80 percent. to Santa Fe with her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson. (All photos of Plame in this issue by Norah Levine.) PAGE 4 • October 22, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS FROM THE EDITOR NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • October 22, 2014 • PAGE 5 APD Records Stonewalling APD’s Purchase of Assault Rifles Called ‘Borderline Illegal’ Costs ABQ Big Money BY PETER ST. CYR BY DAN VUKELICH he Albuquerque Police Department rushed think it’s borderline illegal based on our established Tthrough a questionable purchase of 350 military- procurement process,” he said. efore this Council shows the city paid more