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. 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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.