Archive for July 9, 2005

Saturday, July 9, 2005

Pandering

Pandas might still be coming to Albuquerque.

Mayor Martin Chávez and Gov. Bill Richardson announced a plan Friday for using $1.5 million in state funding to help the effort.

State capital outlay money pledged by Richardson would replace funds that were cut from a general-obligation bond-issue proposal by the City Council.

The Albuquerque Journal

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of New Mexico’s schools have at least one inadequate building feature (e.g., roofs, plumbing, electric wiring), and 75% have at least one unsatisfactory environmental condition (e.g., poor air quality, poor heating, too much noise).

American Society of Civil Engineers

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Priorities

“It is proper to ask what the appropriate balance is between basic services such as sidewalks - particularly in city with high pedestrian fatalities - and the mayor’s proposal to spend $1.8 million on a panda exhibit and $3 million on a diving tank for the city biopark. The mayor’s proposal set aside only $400,000 for sidewalks.”

From an editorial in The Albuquerque Tribune

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Dreary day

According to the National Weather Service, yesterday Albuquerque only received 94% of the possible sunshine. No wonder I was in the dumps. What a dreary day.

On July 3rd and 4th it was 100% of the possible sunshine.

Not a lot of clouds around.

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