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VOL II, Issue 24, December 2, 2015 New Mexico’s best alternative newspaper Sandia’s Nuke Dump Next Door PAGE 12 Is Your Holly-Burque!! TV Watching PAGE 6 You? PAGE 21 Mayor ‘Stonewall’ Berry TV: ‘Fargo’ P AGE 5 Freezes Out Competition PAGE 26 Not Board: Tabletop Games for Giving PAGE 24 EDITor’s A&E PICKS ABQ FREE PRESS • December 2, 2015 • 3 A&E: Three to See !!! with Stereolad and YOU [Page 27] Launchpad #dancepunk Tuesday, Dec. 8 courtesy of artist ‘MAMMOTH’ [Page 22] #paleofable Tricklock Performance Laboratory Friday-Saturday, Dec. 11-12 LIVE HAPPY Buran Theatre ‘Fargo’ [Page 26] AND HEALTHY. #mustsee #TV Mondays on FX 8 p.m. FX Productions Maximum Rock ‘n’ Soul BY CAPTAIN AMERICA Check us out. Compare our plans to others and you’ll learn what more than 35,000 other New Mexicans just like you already know: lots of benefits, lots of doctors for not a lot of moola. Call 505-322-2360 or visit myNMHC.org. Source: NMHC October 2015 Enrollment The BellRays’ Lisa Kekaula. 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The BellRays with Reverend Horton Heat, Lords of Altamont NMHC0363-1015 Tuesday, Dec. 15, 8 p.m. Sunshine Theater, 120 Central SW, $20 / Ages 13+ 4 • December 2, 2015 • ABQ FREE PRESS www.freeabq.com ABQ FREE PRESS • December 2, 2015 • 5 NEWS NEWS www.abqarts.com ANALYSIS Editor: [email protected] Ribbon-cutting Mayor Ducks Hard Questions ABQ Free Press Pulp News Associate Editor, News: [email protected] BY DENNIS DOMRZALSKI COMPILED BY ABQ FREE PRESS STAFF Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] Kinder bloodsuckers by “whistleblowers” that climate schedule implemented by former Advertising: [email protected] ayor Richard Berry “is committed to transpar- data were manipulated at NOAA. Mency within city government,” according to the House Speaker John Boehner has led On Twitter: @FreeABQ University of California scientists are City of Albuquerque’s website. The mayor wanted to Another Texas member of Congress, to a “do-nothing” Congress. Accord- working to engineer a malaria-free Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Editor be seen as a leader of a national movement to bring ing to Jolly’s office, over the last 20 mosquito which, if successful, could said Smith’s allegations smack “of the Dan Vukelich more openness to government, he told The Econo- eliminate a disease that kills 600,000 discredited tactics used by climate years, the U.S. House has been in (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 mist magazine in November 2011, midway through people annually. Their approach is change denial groups ... to sway pub- session on average 137 days each year. his first term. two-fold, according to the New York lic opinion based on misinformation, Comparatively, the typical American Associate Editor, News Lately, though, that commitment appeared to have Times. One genetic modification Coming Soon Dennis Domrzalski innuendo and falsehoods.” worker putting in a 40-hour, 5-day waned – at least when it comes to answering ques- makes the mosquito resistant to the (505) 306-3260 tions from this newspaper. workweek is at his or her job 241 days parasite that causes malaria. The End of Days ABQ Free Press Since May, Berry and his spokesperson have repeat- each year. Associate Editor, Arts other is a modification that causes 100 Two signs: TV evangelist Jim Bakker edly failed, or refused, to answer questions from ABQ percent of the engineered mosquito’s is wearing black clothing in mourning Killer kids Samantha Anne Carrillo Free Press on a wide range of public-policy issues, genes to be transmitted to offspring, of the coming apocalypse. “I am in (505) 345-4080 ext. 804 including the $100 million bus rapid transit project instead of the normal 50 percent. Toddlers finding and shooting guns he wants to put on Central Avenue and the retention mourning because the people aren’t Design Together, the modifications could free have left 43 people dead in 2015, ac- bonuses for 19 members of the Albuquerque Police ready,” he said. And in Blount County, Terry Kocon, C.S. Tiefa a large geographic region of malaria Tenn., officials tried to pass a reso- cording to The Washington Post. In 31 Department’s command staff. within 10 mosquito generations, the lution asking God to “pass us by in of those cases, the toddler shot himself Photography Most recently, the administration failed to answer newspaper reported. His coming wrath” over the Supreme questions about why the chief of the city’s Aviation or herself. In August, an Alabama Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio Labreche, Liz Lopez, Court’s same-sex ruling and “not Adria Malcolm Police department had been suspended. Berry him- Climate denial 2-year-old found his father’s semi-au- destroy us as He did to Sodom and ONLINE self refused to answer questions from the paper when A Texas congressman is planning Gomorrah.” The resolution did not tomatic pistol and shot him. More re- Contributors this issue it called his personal cell phone three times. Berry to hold hearings on the National come to a vote. cently, a 6-year-old found his father’s Julia Angwin, Lisa Barrow, Captain America, Hugh Elliott, appeared to have hung up on the first call from the Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- gun and killed his 3-year-old brother DATING Gary Glasgow, Juani Hopwood, Ariane Jarocki, paper’s reporter, and he failed to return two mes- tration’s scientific findings that global Get to work while playing cops and robbers. This Meet People Who Care Roderick Kennedy, Dan Klein, Robert Klein, Joe Monahan, sages the reporter left. warming is not slowing down or A Florida congressman has intro- Sayrah Namasté, Robert Reich, Sebastian Rotella, The job of communicating with the news media and past January, an Albuquerque 3-year- abating. Rep. Lamar Smith plans to duced a bill to require Congress to Let ABQ’s Best Alternative M. Brianna Stallings, Rene Thompson, Tom Tomorrow getting reporters answers to their questions falls to call NOAA Administrator Kathryn work a 40-hour week. Rep. David old picked up his father’s gun and Newspaper Help You Find Rhiannon Schroeder, Berry’s director of communi- Sullivan before his House science and Jolly, a Florida Republican, says the shot and wounded the father and his Your Soulmate Copy Editors cations. But since May, Schroeder, who makes $33.43 Dan Vukelich Wendy Fox Dial technology committee on allegations loose two-weeks-on, one-week-off pregnant mother. an hour, or $69,534 a year, hasn’t answered a single Rihannon Schroeder, Mayor Richard Berry’s spokesperson, limits Jim Wagner question from about a dozen or so posed by this news media access to the mayor and fails to respond to questions newspaper. Nor has she arranged requested inter- about public policy that could result in negative publicity. Sales Director (505) 345-4080 views with Berry or the city’s chief administrative Pam Gutierrez x803 officer, Rob Perry. Schroeder has failed to answer the Stonewalled? paper’s questions even when the paper was directed Featured RENTAL Property Sales Representatives (505) 345-4080 Matthew Reichbach, editor of the New Mexico by city department spokespeople to contact her. Abby Feldman x802 Christian Horstmann x817 Political Report, an online news organization, said his Netherwood Park, Albuquerque Cory Calamari x810 Teddy Mitchell x814 reporters have different experiences with Schroeder Garrett Ferguson x809 John Wehner x812 Since May, Schroeder, who makes when they ask her questions about the administra- $33.43 an hour, or $69,534 a year, tion. “They are not great, but they are not the worst,” Operations Manager in terms of responding, Reichbach said. “We have Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 hasn’t answered a single question gotten responses from them in the past, but if it’s any Published every other week by: from about a dozen or so posed by sort of negative story they don’t respond at all.” City Councilor Diane Gibson, a Democrat, said she A full-service residential Great Noggins LLC this newspaper hears frequently from reporters at the city’s three P.O. Box 6070 and commercial major TV stations that they have had difficulty in get- Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 property management brokerage For instance, the paper recently called the city’s Hu- ting their questions answered by this administration. man Resources director, Mary Scott, to ask about is- Gibson said she has also been told that Berry himself serving both renters Publishers sues regarding the potential loss of information from Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich is mostly not accessible to the media. and property owners. city employees’ personnel files.