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Chavez considers Senate
Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez says he is "considering" a run for the U.S. Senate. He issued a written statement this afternoon: "While I am getting calls from across the state... Read more »
Minor election problems
Bernalillo County has a colorful history rife with Election Night trouble counting the votes. But for municipal elections in Albuquerque, things are usually pretty smooth. Most of the problems that... Read more »
Piling on
Critics of Mayor Martin Chavez are already piling on. The state GOP was quick to issue a statement pointing out that each of the candidates favored by the mayor's top... Read more »
Lowest turnout ever?
Tuesday's turnout may be the lowest ever for a city election. The interim city clerk, Randy Autio, told Journal reporter Olivier Uyttebrouck that turnout is in the neighborhood of 10... Read more »
Blogging the election
In today's story on the mayor's "team," I didn't have much space to get into the debate over negative ads run against councilors Brad Winter and Don Harris earlier this... Read more »
Mayor gets personal
I'm always interested in the personal anecdotes public officials and candidates choose to share. Mayor Martin Chavez closed last night's "State of the City" address with a pretty good one.... Read more »
A few zingers
City Council candidates gathered at the Marriott today for a forum sponsored by several business groups. As usual, they spit out a few zingers I couldn't squeeze into my story.... Read more »
De’Pascal: Achievements Have Merit
City Council candidate Paulette de'Pascal isn't happy with the Journal's coverage of her "life-experience" degrees — for which she took no classes. My colleague, Sean Olson, says de'Pascal singled him... Read more »
District 6 goes negative
You don't have go online anymore to keep up with the blogs. Some blog posts are being printed out and distributed in City Council District 6, which covers much of... Read more »
Councilors consider Iraq war
It's not often that City Council meetings involve songs and foreign policy, but Monday's meeting had both. The council voted 5-2 to adopt a resolution urging the federal government to... Read more »
Foster leaving City Hall
Chantal Foster, who ran the city's Web site, is leaving City Hall for a new job with Bioneers, a nonprofit environmental group. Foster, of course, is famous for having founded... Read more »
Getting to know the mayor
Martin Chavez isn't that easy to get to know personally — at least not for a newspaper reporter. He called the other day for my reporting partner, Sean Olson, who... Read more »
