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
That is nothing! In Tucson our leaders plan to spend $8 million on enlarging the zoo’s elephant exhibit even after an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee offered to take the beasts for free. The zoo wants to breed one of the elephants and cannot do that with the small space currently provided.
Everyone loves elephants, but $8 million when the city has so many other needs and the elephants could be living in open space with other pachyderms.
Nicely put: the juxtaposition speaks for itself.