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VOL III, Issue 5, March 9, 2016 New Mexico’s best alternative newspaper ABQ’s Latest Melee: Bus Rapid Transit PAGE 8 Conflict of Interest In City Hall Crisis Deal? PAGE 5 Our Endorsement In the GOP Food Fight PAGE 21 The Crêpe of Things to Come P AGE 27 Nob Hill Med Pot PAGE 5 Wrestling with Destiny PAGE 31 2 • March 9, 2016 • ABQ FREE PRESS www.freeabq.com ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 3 NEWS www.abqarts.com EditoR’S A&E Pick Editor: [email protected] Arts: [email protected] Will the Real Bernie Sanders Stand Up? News: [email protected] Advertising: [email protected] A letter writer to the Washington Post questioned whether photos BY SA‘HastaMANTHA ANNE CARRILLO La Fantasía’ Classes for that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders published on his website On Twitter: @FreeABQ depicting him as an early advocate of Black civil rights in 1962 are Editor really him. Dan Vukelich WorK The photographer, Danny Lyon, who now lives in Bernalillo and (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 ce is a contributor to ABQ Free Press, says they are in fact Sanders. Associate Editor, News Critics allege Sanders padded his resume and that the student in PlaY Dennis Domrzalski &What Will You learn todaY? these two photos is another activist named Bruce Rappaport, who (505) 306-3260 died in 2006. Managing Editor/Arts Editor Lyon, a student at the University of Chicago in 1962 and who, as Samantha Anne Carrillo the official photographer of the Student National Coordinating (505) 345-4080 ext. 804 Committee, documented the civil rights movement both in the North and South throughout the 1960s, says see for yourself. Online Editor Juani Hopwood From Lyon: “The slander that Bernie was not a very early leader for (505) 345-4080 ext. 816, [email protected] African American civil rights got so outrageous that persons went into the archives of the University of Chicago and changed captions Circulation Manager Steve Cabiedes on 1962 photos, claiming it was Bruce Rappaport standing in Bernie’s Courtesy of artist (505) 345-4080 ext. 815 clothing leading the demonstration in the administration building.” Vanessa Zamora Top: “Bernie Sanders” leading a sit-in in the winter of 1962 in the University of Design n her 25 years on Earth, Mexican pop star Vanessa Zamora has achieved an Chicago administration building over the school’s racial policies. Terry Kocon, C.S. Tiefa Iimpressive and buzzworthy international presence. Her formal musical Bottom: Bernie Sanders next to the University of Chicago President George Beadle, Photos credit: ABQ Free Press contributor Danny Lyon, courtesy Photography education began in earnest at age 8 with piano classes; from there, Zamora of Magnum Photos and the University of Chicago Archives moved on to guitar, drums and vocal work. as he addresses a student rally on housing sit-ins. Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Labreche, Liz Lopez, From shout-outs on NPR to a SXSW showcase, all signs point to an excited Adria Malcolm recommendation of this Tijuana native alt-pop singer’s gig in Albuquerque. Contributors this issue Mexico City resident Zamora enchants at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 Fourth Street SW) on Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. Presented as part of ABQ Free Press Pulp News Ty Bannerman, Andrew Beale, Jeff Berg, Pete Campos, Professional Development | Personal Enrichment | Online Training the Chispa: Latin Diva series, tickets to this all-ages recital are only $12. COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF Gary Glasgow, Heath Haussamen, Juani Hopwood, Bill Hume, Ariane Jarocki, Dan Klein, Karie Luidens, Danny Lyon, Vanessa Zamora 505-277-0077 Trapped and trim plants and alert human Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and Ian Maksick, Joe Monahan, Sayrah Namasté, Joey Peters, Tuesday, March 22, 7:30 p.m. National Hispanic Cultural Center ce.unm.edu/Spring supervisors when a lettuce the United Arab Emirates, for Robert Pidcock, Robert Reich, M. Brianna Stallings, Richard 1701 Fourth Street SW, nhccnm.org Tickets: $12 A 43-year-old Chinese woman plant is not growing properly. example, will not grant a traveler Stevens, Rene Thompson, Tom Tomorrow, Christa Valdez was found dead by an apartment The company, Spread of Kyoto, a visa if they see an Israeli stamp building’s maintenance workers Copy Editors estimates that automation will in the traveler’s passport. Unlike after she was trapped in an ele- Wendy Fox Dial cut labor costs by 50 percent. The regular passports, a second pass- Jim Wagner vator for a month. The incident farm is expected to open in 2017. port expires after two years. Start and end your day with us! took place in the northern city of Sales Director (505) 345-4080 ABQ FREE Press Xi’an in China. Local authorities New record Richest Pam Gutierrez x803 A&E: Three to See Attn: Abby Feldman said the woman was trapped Beijing has nudged out New Sales Representatives (505) 345-4080 after maintenance workers shut An Australian man now holds York as the city with the most Abby Feldman x802 [Page 33] off the power supply to service the world record for the loudest Size: 1/4 page vertical only 4.75” x 5.4375” billionaires. The Chinese capital Cory Calamari x810 #HelloMyNameIsDoris the malfunctioning elevator on burp. Nev Sharp of Darwin gained 32 new ones last year for Sherri J. Barth x813 Run Date: March 9, 2016 Jan. 30, then left for the extended belted out a 110.6-decibel belch Rom-com meets Sally Field a total of 100, compared to New Chinese New Year break. They – louder than a snowmobile, Operations Manager York’s 95. Moscow is third with Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 love-in found the woman’s body when motorcycle or power saw. 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The old record of 109.9 Americas is working on highway Cover Illustration Award winning news, decibels was set by a U.K. man Yoga+Beer = Pints & Planks A Japanese company is planning billboards that will track your in 2009. Gary Glasgow to build the first farm manned movements through your loca- Corrections policy: public affairs & talk radio by robots. The automated indoor tion-enabled mobile phone after Passports It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct farm will grow lettuce that you pass its billboards. The tech- errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors will be planted, tended to and It’s not well-known but Amer- nology will be installed at tens at the email addresses on this page. picked by robots, according to icans can possess two U.S. of thousands of billboards Clear [Page 36] #WithinRange the website TechInsider.io. The passports at the same time. 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NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • March 9, 2016 • 5 Med Pot Comes to Hipster-ville BY DAN VUKELICH ob Hill now has its own cardholders statewide, about Nmarijuana dispensary. half of them in Bernalillo County, Birdland the Hippie Store, Salgado said. 3213 Central Ave. N.E., has The average age of Ultra Health’s leased part of its space to Ultra customers is 50 – people who have Health, a medical marijuana tried unsuccessfully to treat pain grower. with traditional drugs. About half The co-located operations suffer from post-traumatic stress will sell tie-dyed shirts, pipes disorder, Salgado said. and items from the 1960s up Jay Steinberg, owner of Bird- front. Behind Birdland’s display land, said the pairing of the two counter is a brightly painted businesses in an iconic section of 1960’s VW van. Albuquerque was a natural. “The Farther into the store, behind neighbors have been so positive a locked door controlled by a and the response from some is that buzzer, is a modern showroom they think it will increase their with glass showcases to display dining business,” Steinberg said. large glass jars full of marijuana The sales floor of the dispensary products.