VOL I, Issue 6, July 2, 2014 How to Beat a Traffic Ticket PAGE 12 APD’s History of Spying Spans Decades PAGE 5 Ex-Gov. Asks Susana: ‘Where’s the Beef?’ PAGE 10 Homeless at the Library PAGE 5 ABQ ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT COVERAGE STARTS ON PAGE 14 PAGE 2 • July 2, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS NEWS ABQ Free Press Pulp News www.freeabq.com compiled By aBq free press staff www.abqarts.com VOL I, Issue 6, July 2, 2014 Editor: Stuck in the past has been developing the concept for hugged acacia trees. When researchers a scout takes a bit back to the nest, [email protected] a decade, says that by the end of the employed thermal-imaging equip- leaving a pheromone trail. As more Associate Editor, Arts: [email protected] The FBI compiled an 83-page year it will roll the technology as an ment, they found that on hot days, ants follow the trail, the most direct glossary of 3,000 “Twitter shorthand” app for Windows 8. If only they could acacia trunks were on average 45 route to and from is further identified phrases that shows that the FBI might Advertising: [email protected] IN THIS ISSUE roll out an app that fixes the disaster degrees cooler than the surrounding for maximum efficiency. Scouts tend be a tad out of touch. For instance, the known as Windows 8. air, while eucalyptus trunks were only to be older ants. Gatherers tend to be On Twitter: @freeabq list refers to slang used on MySpace, 36 degrees cooler. On cooler days, younger, less experienced ants. which was eclipsed by Facebook years Do these toes make koalas hug eucalyptus trunks to stay ago. Some of the headscratchers on the close to food. Driving while black Editor list include BTDTGTTSAWIO (“been me look fat? Dan Vukelich NEWS there, done that, got the T-shirt and A New York car salesman is suing (505) 345-4080. Ext. 800 Kim Kardashian had liposuction wore it out”) — which was used in all Checkbook journalism after the New York Taxi and Limou- ABQ Free Press Pulp News ............................................................................................................Page 2 performed on her big toes at a cost of of 47 tweets in the eight-year history of Chelsea Clinton was paid $600,000 a sine Commission seized his car after Associate Editor, Arts $5,000, according to Look (U.K.). A APD’s spying spans decades .......................................................................................................... Page 5 Twitter – although it does sound like year for her rookie season as an NBC seeing him dropping off his light- Stephanie Hainsfurther podiatrist using tiny instruments sucked something an FBI agent might say. News correspondent, says Politico.com. skinned wife at work. Agents accused (505) 301-0905 Nursing at the main library .............................................................................................................. Page 5 the fat out of the toes to allow her to fit That works out to about $26,724 for him of operating an illegal taxi service Pajarito Mesa: Where you can own land but not legally live ...........................................................Page into stilettos for her wedding to rap star Design 6 each minute she appeared on TV. She and said his “white female” passenger Open a hailing Kayne West, the magazine reported. How to beat the rap in Metro Court ...............................................................................................Page 12 was paid more than the recently ousted must have been a paying customer, Hannah Reiter frequency editor of the New York Times and the New York Post reported. Terry Kocon Lt. Uhura of the Starship Enterprise Why did the koala veteran network news correspondents. Photography was a pioneer in so many ways – cross the road? That’s so like them Juan Antonio Labreche, Liz Lopez including beating Skype by some 50 Not all ants are The CIA joined the 21st century and COLUMNS years on the “Universal Translator” To get to a cooler tree, according to Contributors signed up for Twitter and Facebook thing. The Verge.com reports that a study reported by Sciencemag.com, created equal Jeff Berg, Annette Chartier, Carlos Contreras, Joe Monahan: ABQ’s recession is back ..........................................................................................Page 7 koalas hug trees to stay cool in during accounts, then tweeted this: “We can Skype and Microsoft are developing Scientists have found that ants Bill Diven, Leslie Doran, Dede Feldman, Barry Australia’s brutal summers. Scientists neither confirm nor deny this is our Tales from the bench .......................................................................................................................Page 7 a feature to allow users speaking divide themselves into “scouts” and Gaines, Eric Garcia, Jim Hammond, Matthew already knew that koalas’ diet first tweet.” Within a few hours, it was different languages to communicate “gatherers” in a highly organized way Irwin, Nate Maxson, Dr. Barbara McAneny, Joe The Answer Guy: Mopeds and MVD ...............................................................................................Page 9 consisted of eucalyptus leaves. What retweeted 75,000 times. with one another with the help of to search for food. Once food is found, Monahan, Mary Montaño, Richard Oyama, Bill Aimless Vagabond: At the end of his rope in Peru ...........................................................................Page 9 real-time translation. 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(Photo by Liz Lopez) PAGE 4 • July 2, 2014 • ABQ FREE PRESS FROM THE EDITOR NEWS ABQ FREE PRESS • July 2, 2014 • PAGE 5 We’re Not Alone: ACLU Finds Main Library to Get Nurse to Treat Homeless Patrons Militarization of Police Nationwide By dede feldmaN By daN Vukelich or most people, the Albuquerque it may take library users “awhile to FPublic Library is the place to go for absorb the concept of having a nurse in The American weapons, position the public as the books, children’s programs, events the public library.” Civil Liberties enemy, rather than human beings they and research. But since the 1980s, Eloise Gift, chair of the Albuquerque Union released have sworn to serve and protect.” America’s libraries have also become Bernalillo County Library Advisory Board, a report late last The ACLU found that the militarization the refuge for homeless people, many worked with City Councilor Isaac Benton month that con- of police departments has inordinately with mental illnesses. to get the funding. “This is going to cluded that police impacted people of color. “For many of our patrons it’s the one improve the library experience for both departments “Overall, 42 percent of people impacted place they can go to feel they are still the public at large and the homeless and across the United by a SWAT deployment to execute connected to the community,” said mentally ill population,” Gift said. States have been a search warrant were Black