VOL II, Issue 3, February 11, 2015 Still FREE, thank goodness How ABQ’s Crime Rate Stacks Up To El Paso’s PAGE 5 The Cost Of Free Speech What Right-to-work in N.M. Really Means PAGE 9 PAGE 14 More Details of the Gila Dam Boondoogle PAGE 13 Our ‘Heart of the City’ Special Section Starts on Page 19 PAGE 2 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS www.freeabq.com www.abqarts.com Editor: [email protected] VOL II, Issue 3, February 11, 2015 Still FREE, thank goodness Associate Editor, News: [email protected] Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] Advertising: [email protected] IN THIS ISSUE On Twitter: @FreeABQ NEWS Editor ABQ Free Press Pulp News .............................................................................................................Page Dan Vukelich 4 (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 The Calm of El Paso vs. the shooting gallery that is ABQ ............................................................... Page 5 Santolina development would cannibalize older parts of ABQ, study says ......................................Page 6 Associate Editor, News Attorney charges lawmaker used title unethically in court filing ...................................................... Page Dennis Domrzalski 8 (505) 306-3260 COVER STORY: Free speech in N.M. comes at a cost ...................................................................Page 9 Poll: N.M. believes legislators favor lobbyists in Santa Fe ............................................................Page 11 Associate Editor, Arts APD has yet to standardize officers’ sidearms ..............................................................................Page 11 Stephanie Hainsfurther Details emerge on potential “fatal flaws” in Gila Dam Project .......................................................Page (505) 301-0905 13 Inside the right-to-work debate ......................................................................................................Page 14 Design Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa Photography COLUMNS Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Joe Monahan: Lobbyist-legislator coziness in Santa Fe ................................................................. Page Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm 7 Efrain Villa: Luck and fate on the road from Mombassa to Lamu .....................................................Page 7 Contributors this issue Sabrina Autry, Tony Davis, Bill Diven, Joan Friedland, Barry Gaines, Gary Glasgow, Jim Hammond, Rocco Loverro, Betsy Model, OPINION Joe Monahan, Richard Oyama, Dennis Plummer, N.M. GOP’s position on immigrant driver’s licenses is fear mongering .........................................Page 12 Franchesca Stevens, Riley Stevens, Op-Ed: ABQ has no long-term strategy on ending homelessness ................................................Page Saffron Tomato, Peter St. Cyr, Efrain Villa 12 Op-Ed: Jerry Ortiz y Pino on the damage Susana caused to behavioral health ...........................Page 17 Copy Editors Editorial cartoons ...........................................................................................................................Page 17 Jim Wagner Wendy Fox Dial Sales Manager ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE Greta Weiner, (505) 345-4080, Ext, 803 Culture: First-ever survey of Jews in New Mexico.........................................................................Page 18 Operations Manager Special section: Travel To Your Heart Of The City ................................................................ 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Box 6070 Film: ‘Citizenfour,’ ‘Two Days, One Night’ ......................................................................................Page 24 Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 Theater: ‘Annapurna,’ ‘American Buffalo’ ......................................................................................Page 25 Music: Janis Ian and Guest at Jean Cocteau ................................................................................Page Publishers 26 Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich Music: Lucinda Williams on a Lonely Road ...................................................................................Page 27 Music Briefs ...................................................................................................................................Page 27 Events Calendar .................................................................................................................... Page 28-31 Corrections policy: How to enter our Flash Fiction Contest .........................................................................................Page It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct 30 errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors Crossword Solution .......................................................................................................................Page 31 at the email addresses on this page. Crossword Puzzle..........................................................................................................................Page 32 ON THE COVER: Ousted APS board member Kathy Korte considers her options after losing her board seat and her job because of her outspokenness on standardized testing. Where to find our paper? Corrections List of more than An article in the Jan. 28 issue about the possibility that Amtrak service to New Mexico could end incorrectly 550 locations identified the mayor of Las Vegas. He is Alfonso E. Ortiz. at freeabq.com An article in the Jan. 28 issue about New Mexico’s “Runaway Grand Jury” erroneously stated that the lack of an indictment in the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., led to criticism of the Staten Island, N.Y., district attorney. The criticism was directed at the St. Louis County, Mo., district attorney. PAGE 4 • February 11, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • February 11, 2015 • PAGE 5 Oxy-View Herrera School Buses ABQ Free Press Pulp News The Calm of El Paso vs. the Shooting Gallery We Call ABQ Eyewear comPILED BY ABq frEE PrESS StAff BY BILL DIVEN Snowjob story when the driver pulled the tooth f Albuquerque took a chill pill, it beat cop who didn’t want his name out of his pocket. Imight be more like El Paso, Texas, used because he wasn’t authorized to These attractive eyeglass A New Jersey lawmaker plans to a metro area of similar size but with speak to the media. introduce a bill to allow kids to frames not only hold your only half the violent crime. Then there’s the culture of the shovel snow from sidewalks, free Malware pawns prescription lenses, they Albuquerque’s murder rate is El Paso Police Department where from government regulation. Two A new malware campaign called four times that of El Paso, a city 250 community policing and a respect for also deliver the oxygen teens were told by Bound Brook, N.J., “Operation Pawn Storm” is targeting miles down the Rio Grande opposite residents generally holds sway. Or, as you need in a way that borough police that if they wanted mobile devices running iOS 7 or older Cíudad Juarez, Mexico, according to the beat cop told the ABQ Free Press, to shovel snow after a recent heavy others will hardly notice operating systems. The malware hacks the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting snowfall they would have to buy a “You can’t go around being dicks.” into all apps on the infected mobile (UCR) for 2013. Albuquerque tallies $450 permit required of door-to-door “It’s tough when your police depart- device, collects geo-location data, rapes at more than double El Paso’s ...they’ll see only your solicitors. “I guess snow shoveling ment isn’t up to par,” banker Moreno contact lists, pictures and texts, and smiling face. has joined lemonade stands as the rate. Albuquerque annually records said, referring to Albuquerque. “We sends all of it to a central server. On new target of bureaucrats in the war 742 violent crimes per 100,000 popula- have better community relations iOS 8 devices, the user gets a warning against teaching kids the value of tion, twice the national number. here.” Call MULLER OPTICAL that an app is trying to launch itself. work,” said the lawmaker. The FBI report covers the Albu- Pineda compares his experiences Today for your FREE querque statistical area – which with demonstrations in Detroit and Unclear on concept includes 903,000 people spread across Washington, D.C., where police hos- Consultation Live and let live Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance and tilities escalated tension, to the tone A man stopped by police for entering Rather than kill the cockroaches that Valencia counties. El Paso includes of an El Paso rally on the birthday a carpool lane near the George infested his Canberra, Australia vegan one neighboring county and counts of labor and civil-rights leader Cesár Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, N.J. restaurant, Kingsland Vegetarian 842,000 residents. Chavez. “Even the folks who were said he did in fact have passengers, Restaurant owner Khanh Hoang In comparison to the Wild West Bill Diven sort of the loudest and making the and rolled down a rear-seat window chose to pay a $12,000 fine. Hoang shootout occurring almost nightly in Shoppers crowd the sidewalks along El Paso Street