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VOL I, Issue 15, November 5, 2014 Still FREE After All These Months What You Changing APD’s Need to Know Culture of Aggression About Obamacare Could Take Years PAGE 7 PAGE 11 APD: We’re Missing an M16 Assault Rifle PAGE 5 The Great Gila River Diversion Boondoggle PAGE 9 PAGE 2 • November 5, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS www.freeabq.com Falling Oil Prices Good for Drivers, ABQ Free Press Pulp News www.abqarts.com ComPilED BY ABq frEE PrEss sTAff Bad for Public Schools, Universities Editor: [email protected] VOL I, Issue 15, November 5, 2014 Still FREE After All These Months Associate Editor, News: Dennis Domrzalski BY DAN VUKEliCH Yucks for bucks in Glendale, Ariz., where Red Mesa Redskins’ supporters confronted Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] hile New Mexico motorists are “We’ve looked at the smaller A comedy club in Barcelona, Spain, is protesters demanding that the NFL Advertising: Wreaping the benefit of lower gaso- agencies and are going to table their using facial recognition software on team stop using the name because it is [email protected] IN THIS ISSUE line prices, New Mexico legislators budgets until we get a clearer picture audience members to charge patrons offensive, the paper reported. [email protected] preparing next year’s state budget are on the price of oil, and after we know by the laugh. Each laugh costs the [email protected] holding their breath. what the larger agencies will need,” equivalent of 38 cents, up to a maxi- On Twitter: An extra $285 million in new tax mum of $30.50, after which subsequent Vanity @freeabq Varela said. The LFC has two more NEWS revenues forecast to be available to hearings before the end of the year. laughs are free. The Teatreneu club An Ohio woman being sought for concocted the pay-per-laugh idea to armed robbery and kidnapping Falling oil prices could hit schools, colleges .....................................................................................Page 2 the 2015 Legislature is rapidly disap- The Legislature convenes for a 60-day Editor pearing as the price of oil drops. session on Jan. 13. circumvent a tax increase the Spanish was so upset with her unflattering ABQ Free Press Pulp News ............................................................................................................ Page 2 government imposed on the sale of mug shot on the Columbus Police Dan Vukelich The price of a barrel of oil in early The effect of a further drop in the (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 APD admits it is missing an assault rifle ...........................................................................................Page 5 theater tickets, the U.K. newspaper, Department’s Facebook page, she November hovered around $82 – price of oil could ripple across New Domino’s going dine-in ................................................................................................................. Page 10 down from $105 in July. For every Mexico’s economy because produc- The Guardian, reported. called and demanded that it be taken Associate Editor, News down. Police urged her to “come dollar drop in the price of oil, New tion at some wells in New Mexico Dennis Domrzalski Mexico loses between $8 million and would be abandoned if the price of oil Air supremacy on in and we’ll talk about it.” When (505) 306-3260 ANALYSIS $10 million in tax revenues annually. makes it uneconomical to pump it out she arrived at the police station, the A red-tailed hawk took down a “We’re watching the markets and of the ground. 34-year-old woman was arrested and Associate Editor, Arts COVER STORY: Your guide to Obamacare open enrollment ........................................................ Page 7 quadrocopter drone being flown over waiting and hoping that prices don’t That would lead to oilfield job later indicted. Stephanie Hainsfurther Changing APD’s culture could take years .....................................................................................Page 11 a Cambridge, Mass., park. The hawk drop dangerously low,” said Rep. losses, which in turn would lead to a (505) 301-0905 menaced the drone until its operator Luciano “Lucky” Varela, a Santa reduction in gross receipts tax collec- was forced to reduce power to its Hands up, don’t Fe Democrat and chairman of the tions in oil-producing areas, analysts Design OPINION propeller blades to avoid injuring the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC). have told the LFC. shoot Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa bird. The drone crash-landed in the From the Editor: Meet the man at APD who says “no” to the news media .......................................Page 4 The LFC has been holding hearings As a result of the falling price of oil, park but its GoPro camera captured Black teens are 21 times more likely to Photography Letters to the Editor ..........................................................................................................................Page since the summer as part of the budget- the price of gasoline in the Albuquer- 6 the attack and crash. In late 2013, a be shot and killed by police than white drafting process for the 2015 session. que area dropped from above $3 a Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Jerry Ortiz y Pino: The Great Gila River diversion boondoggle ........................................................Page 9 New Zealand drone was attacked by a teens, ProPublica reported. “The 1,217 Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm The falling price of oil will likely be felt gallon earlier this year to as low as flock of birds that ripped out a battery deadly police shootings from 2010 to by public schools, colleges and universi- $2.65 a gallon in early November. cable, causing the operator to lose 2012 captured in the federal data show Contributors this issue ties and the Human Services Department, COLUMNS control and crash. Both drone attacks that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at Sabrina Autry, Barry Gaines, Jerry Ortiz y Pino, which together account for about 70 Dan Vukelich is editor of ABQ Free Press. were posted to YouTube. a rate of 31.17 per million, while just Richard Oyama, Peter St. Cyr, Saffron Tomato, Efrain Villa: Waiting for the bus to Mandalay .................................................................................Page 12 percent of the state’s $6 billion budget. Reach him at [email protected] 1.47 per million white males in that Efrain Villa age range died at the hands of police,” A little surprise ProPublica reported. Copy Editors ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE Jim Wagner A Spanish woman gave birth to a Calling All Pets..................................................................................................................................Page 8 dwarf nine months after having sex Hair-B-Gone Wendy Fox Dial with a dwarf stripper who entertained Deep Dish: Restaurant news .........................................................................................................Page 13 Advertising at her bachelorette party, according to A Turkish cosmetics company used the Thirsty Gardener: Keep your rainfall close to home ......................................................................Page 14 the Spanish website LasCincoDelDía. now-notorious photo of Khalid Sheikh Greta Weiner, (505) 345-4080, Ext, 803 DVDs: The Existential Banker and Slow Food ..............................................................................Page The woman confessed to her husband Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sherri J. Barth (505) 261-5686 15 only after the child’s birth. Another 9/11 attacks, in an ad for a hair-removal Donavan Mosley (505) 345-4080, ext. 806 TV: “Dogs of War” to air on A&E ....................................................................................................Page 15 Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 Spanish dwarf stripper told London’s product. KSM, as he is known, has been Music: Nano Stern at the NHCC....................................................................................................Page 16 Daily Mail he’s never heard of his in U.S. custody since 2003. A photo Published every other week by: Music Briefs ...................................................................................................................................Page fellow strippers having sex with of KSM, disheveled and fatigued and 16 Great Noggins LLC hairy, has been widely circulated on Theater: The nose knows ..............................................................................................................Page customers, and he said he doubts that P.O. Box 6070 17 the Internet. According to U.S. docu- the event could have taken place. “I’m Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 Theater: “Rooster” crows at The Cell ............................................................................................Page 17 astonished at the idea someone’s fallen ments, the former Al Qaeda leader was Book Briefs ....................................................................................................................................Page pregnant like this and the woman has waterboarded 183 times while in U.S. Publishers 18 managed to keep it a secret even from custody. It was unknown whether the Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich Calendar of arts and entertainment events ......................................................................... Pages 19-22 company knew whose image they were her closest friends,” some of whom Puzzle solution ..............................................................................................................................Page