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ABQ Free Press, August 13, 2014 VOL I, Issue 9, August 13, 2014 Pot Vote: Political Theater? PAGE 5 Joe Monahan: Our Summer of Pain Inside ABQ PAGE 7 TV News PAGE 6 Best Motorcycle Roads in N.M. What You Should PAGE 9 Know about Ebola PAGE 11 Exclusive: Longmire’s Bailey Chase PAGE 14 PAGE 2 • August 13, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS ABQ Free Press Pulp News coMPIlEd By ABQ frEE PrEss sTAff VOL I, Issue 9, August 13, 2014 www.freeabq.com Self-inflicted Musician evicted www.abqarts.com A man berating another motorist after A 97-year-old man was kicked out Editor: rear-ending her car was run over by of his nursing home for refusing to [email protected] his own pickup truck, the Gainesville obey an order from managers to stop Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] IN THIS ISSUE Sun reported. Joseph Carl, 48, was playing his ukulele. “Management charged with drunken driving after continually suppressed my talents,” Advertising: [email protected] the incident, which left him with a Jim Farrell said. “Management would [email protected] fractured hand and foot. Police said stop me and say these words: ‘Go he registered a blood alcohol level back to your room!’” After being On Twitter: @freeabq of .22 percent, nearly three times the evicted he ended up in a homeless NEWS threshold for drunken driving. shelter. After his plight appeared ABQ Free Press Pulp News ............................................................................................................Page 2 in a local newspaper, Napa Valley Editor Just ducky residents pitched in to help him move Dan Vukelich Our favorite segment ever on Rachel Maddow’s network ............................................................... Page 2 to a new place. (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 Real politick: The Duke City’s marijuana initiative, a cruel hoax? .................................................. Page A New Hampshire woman was 5 ticketed for stopping on a highway Search for life Associate Editor, Arts An insider’s guide to ABQ TV news .................................................................................................Page 6 median to save two stranded duck- Stephanie Hainsfurther Soft on ganja? Susana backs off stringent N.M. medical pot rules ..................................................Page 9 lings whose mother had been run over A NASA probe set for launch in 2018 (505) 301-0905 UNM’s man on the Ebola beat: The race for a vaccine .................................................................Page by a car. Police cited the woman for will search for evidence of life on 11 non-emergency use of a highway me- planets beyond our solar system. Design Casino news: They have you pegged ...........................................................................................Page 12 dian. “Stopping for an injured duck The $8.8 billion James E. Webb Space Terry Kocon, Hannah Reiter, Cathleen Tiefa or ducklings is not what we would Telescope will go into orbit almost a Photography consider to be an emergency,” a New million miles above Earth and scan Hampshire State Police spokeswoman other solar systems. Its 21-foot-diam- Mark Bralley, Mark Holm, Juan Antonio said. The driver, who is contesting the eter mirror array will search for the Labreche, Liz Lopez, Adria Malcolm COLUMNS $100 ticket in court, said she’d do it all infrared fingerprints of chemicals that Contributors this issue over again if given the chance. we associate with life – oxygen and From the Editor: Our collective problem ...........................................................................................Page 4 CALLING ALL PETS Gregg Dewalt, Bill Diven, By Rep. Nate Gentry, carbon dioxide – in the atmospheres Joe Monahan on politics: ABQ’s long summer of pain .....................................................................Page Jim Hammond, By Rep. W. Ken Martinez, 7 of planets billions of miles away. “Gingy,” a 7-month-old male, loves hanging out in 15-year-old Deanna Lee If you have to ask… Nate Maxson, Betsy Model, Joe Monahan, Efrain Villa, the Wandering Vagabond ..............................................................................................Page 7 Saavedra’s room. The kitten’s name started as “Ginger,” but eventually The Pentagon overpays for just about Happy cities Richard Oyama, Bill Previtti, Kevin Roark, Thirsty Gardener: Mint makes a great mojito ................................................................................Page 13 evolved. “We found him on the street,” Deanna said. everything—from jet fighters to Wolf Schneider, Peter St. Cyr, Seth Taylor, prescription drugs. The seven-year- Richmond, Va., ranks as the happiest Christine Vigil, Efrain Villa delayed, now-grounded F-35 Joint city and New York City is the most Copy Editors Strike Fighter has cost $400 billion, or unhappy, according to a survey by If YOUR PET is THIS CUTE, we about $160 billion over budget. Now, the National Bureau of Economic Jim Wagner want to see a picture; send SEND IT TO Wendy Fox Dial the Government Accountability Office Research, a Massachusetts think tank. OPINION us a high-resolution jpeg as [email protected] reports the plane will take $1 trillion Albuquerque appears to be a mildly Include your name, phone number, Advertising Left vs. Right: Cage match, House Speaker vs. Minority Whip ........................................................Page 8 an email attachment with a a year to operate and support, which happy city while Las Cruces is mildly and your pet’s name, and we’ll try to Sherri J. Barth (505) 261-5686 description of what he or she even the Pentagon agrees is too much. unhappy. Overall, New Mexico ranks Sports: The MWC and football Lobos are so bush league ...........................................................Page 24 reserve their spot in the pet parade. Mark Hainsfurther (505) 400-7601 is doing in the photo. The Pentagon sometimes pays as as a mildly happy state. The survey Abby Feldman (505) 345-4080, Ext. 802 much as 60 percent more than other concluded most of the unhappiest branches of government for exactly places are in the Midwest. the same prescription drugs. Published every other week by: Great Noggins LLC ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT & MORE P.O. Box 6070 MSNBC Pranked by ‘Witness’ Albuquerque, NM 87197-6070 Travel: New Mexico’s best motorcycling roads ................................................................................Page 9 By ABQ frEE PrEss sTAff Interview: “Longmire’s” Bailey Chase ...........................................................................................Page Publishers 14 his is a transcript of an MSNBC Boyd: Well, I was looking out the Will Ferguson and Dan Vukelich Film: “Jersey Boys” and Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s last film ........................................................Page 15 Tbroadcast of news about the down- window, and I saw a projectile flying Arts and Entertainment calendar ...................................................................................................Page 16 ing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 through the sky, and it would appear Corrections policy: Classical Music: Tell Tchaikovsky the News ..................................................................................Page 19 over Eastern Ukraine. The anchor that the plane was shot down by a It is the policy of ABQ Free Press to correct involved, Krystal Ball, was speaking blast of wind from Howard Stern’s ass. errors in a timely fashion. Contact the editors Dance: Going “Gaga” at Keshet ...................................................................................................Page 20 with a person who claimed to be a Ball: So it would appear that the at the e-mail addresses on this page. Music: Spoon, Bear in Heaven, Pray for Brain, Turn to Crime, Zongo Junction ..........................Page 20 witness to the shootdown: plane was shot down. Can you tell Film: James Brown gets down.......................................................................................................Page Ball: Let’s turn now to an MSNBC us anything more from your military 21 exclusive. U.S. Staff Sgt. Michael Boyd training of what sort of missile system Theater: Duke City Rep, Adobe, ALT get busy .............................................................................Page 22 is at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and that may have been coming from? Where to find Books: Max Evans on Sam Peckinpah..........................................................................................Page our paper? 23 cont. on page 24 says that he saw a missile in the air hit Boyd: Well, you’re a dumb—, List of more than Book briefs: “Death by Hitchcock,” “The Arsonist,” more...............................................................Page 23 the plane. He is on the phone with us. aren’t you? 400 locations Sergeant, are you there? Ball: I’m sorry, sir. All right, we’re at freeabq.com Boyd: Yes, I’m here, can you hear me? going to take a quick break, and we’ll Ball: I can, please tell us what you be back with all the latest next. ON THE COVER: Bailey Chase stars as Deputy Branch Connally in “Longmire.” Read Betsy Model’s interview with the actor on saw there on the ground in Ukraine. page 14. Photo by James Minchin. PAGE 4 • August 13, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS FROM THE EDITOR NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • August 13, 2014 • PAGE 5 Let’s Face Facts, Albuquerque, Could Marijuana Ballot Question Be a Cruel Hoax? Justin St. Germain Was Right By PETEr sT. cyr By dAN VukElIch housands of Albuquerque residents planning to Tvote in favor of a marijuana decriminalization lbuquerque, remember.
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