Journal North Opinion - Albuquerque Journal

Journal North Opinion - Albuquerque Journal

Lujan Grisham: Feds liable for wildfire damage

Governor says it's 'problematic' emergency aid isn't designed to fully cover losses

Published: Monday, May 23rd, 2022 at 3:34PM
Updated: Monday, May 23rd, 2022 at 9:55PM

'Rust' movie shooting: Safety must outweigh money, time concerns

All involved must adopt zero tolerance for ignoring protocols

Sunday, October 31st, 2021 at 12:02AM

Random wishes for Santa Fe's future

As Journal North bids adios, a few parting words and hopes for the city

Published: Saturday, October 30th, 2021 at 6:02PM
Updated: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 at 12:02AM

Congress has a role in regulating elections, district lines

National solutions to gerrymandering are legal and necessary

Sunday, October 31st, 2021 at 12:02AM

Investing in fiber broadband for our future

Investment in this technology will support students, professionals and families, especially in rural communities

Sunday, October 24th, 2021 at 12:02AM

Vote 'yes' on Santa Fe school funding proposals

Nothing on the funding list sounds unnecessary, or like a luxury

Published: Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at 6:02PM
Updated: Sunday, October 24th, 2021 at 12:02AM

Pass RECA changes and apologize to our peoples

Despite evidence of harm around us, let's get to work restoring health and wellness to our state

Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at 12:02AM

Webber is the choice for mayor

We support Webber's reelection, while hoping City Hall can move beyond its anti-transparency attitude to become more responsive

Sunday, October 17th, 2021 at 12:02AM

Superintendent: Please vote for school funding

Equity is central to this election, as every student and building will benefit

Sunday, October 10th, 2021 at 12:02AM

Some details could jump start LANL's case for power line

It will take more effort and information before a persuasive case can be made

Sunday, October 10th, 2021 at 12:02AM

Santa Fe Indian School's new football coach Bill Moon talks to his players after practice at the school August 11. (Eddie Moore/ Albuquerque Journal)

Damian Herrera sits with his attorneys during his trail in First District Court Thursday August 12, 2021.

Members of Manuel Serrano's family pray together outside the Santa Fe Courthouse after a jury found Damian Herrera guilty. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Kate Tomkins, a second grade teacher at Carlos Gilbert Elementary School, reads a book to her students. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

From left, Michael Messner, Bushrod Lake and Pam Gilchrist, all with Veterans For Peace, protest in April near a downtown building LANL plans to use for its expansion into Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The city of Santa Fe’s council chambers used to fill up when there was a topic of public interest. But, for the past year, the public has had to attend council meetings virtually, which could limit public participation. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Students in a fourth-grade class at El Dorado Community School near Santa Fe are shown in this May file photo. Several New Mexico schools have recently been forced to temporarily return to a remote learning model due to outbreaks of COVID-19 cases. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Vivian Frey teaches 4th grade at El Dorado Community School. Santa Fe's real estate market is booming, but only time will tell if those moving in are families with children who may enter the schools system. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Visitors to Fort Union National Monument, near Watrous, see the remnants of fort walls and ruts made by wagon traffic on the Santa Fe Trail. Fort Union was established in 1851 near the junction of the trail's Mountain and Cimarron cutoff routes. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Sculptor Reynaldo "Sonny" Rivera's installation "Journey's End," on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, depicts the challenges faced by men and beasts traveling the Santa Fe Trail about 900 miles from Missouri to New Mexico. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The rocky formation dubbed Wagon Mound, because it resembles a covered wagon, was a familiar landmark for travelers along the Cimarron Cutoff route of the Santa Fe Trail northeast of present-day Las Vegas, N.M. The Trail was a vital merchants road from 1821 until 1880, when the arrival of the railroad in Santa Fe made it obsolete. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Missouri trader William Becknell, known as the father of the Santa Fe Trail, would have seen this 1806 church when he passed through San Miguel del Vado, southeast of Santa Fe, on his first trading trip in 1821. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Land baron and rancher Lucien Maxwell built the Aztec Mill in Cimarron in 1864. Now a museum, the mill once provided ground grains for travelers along the Santa Fe Trail, the famed Old West commercial route that marks its 200th anniversary this year. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

A car passes by a building that survived the March 1862 Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass on the Santa Fe Trail. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The New Mexico Supreme Court building in Santa Fe, as seen in March 2020. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

A face mask is shown stuck in the weeds along Interstate 25 near Santa Fe on Monday. New Mexico transportation officials are relaunching an anti-litter campaign amid a recent surge in pandemic-related roadside debris. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Robert and Katy Paquin, both from Oklahoma, put on their face masks before entering a Santa Fe brewery in this April 28 file photo. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's administration on Friday adopted new federal guidance that fully vaccinated individuals no longer have to wear masks in most indoor and outdoor settings. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, photographed in March. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

John Paul Valencia, with the city of Santa Fe's Traffic Signals Division, hangs banners of people serving, or who have served, in the military as part of the city's "Hometown Heroes" project. Santa Fe American Legion 12 is sponsoring the banners, which are hung on light poles along Cerrillos Road through Veterans Day. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Communication Specialists Christopher Flores, left, and Alvina Dickson work answering calls at the Santa Fe Regional Emergency Communications Center. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Lyn deMartin holds a bull snake she recovered from inside a neighbor's grill. DeMartin organizes and trains volunteers to help relocate snakes for people in the Eldorado area. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Ashkia Trujillo of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo performs traditional northern dance on Thursday in front of the remains of the Soldiers Monument that was toppled last October. The Santa Fe Arts Commission discussed ideas for a temporary art installation for the site on the Plaza in Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Charles Verral, right, owner of Rob and Charlie's, talks with customer Jenn Arlin, left, at the bike shop. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this Jan. 20 file photo, from left, funeral directors Israel Perea, Santiago Salazar III, Jacob Shaw and Christy Cantu at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service prepare to transport a casket to the Santa Fe National Cemetery as part of a funeral for a woman who died from COVID-19. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Ken Mayers of Veterans For Peace protests on April 23 at Guadalupe and West Alameda streets in Santa Fe, near a building LANL plans to use. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Veterans For Peace members protest at the corner of Guadalupe Street and West Alameda Street near a building LANL plans to put offices in Santa Fe on Friday April 23, 2021. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

An oil pump jack north of Carlsbad in 2019. The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed a bill on Wednesday, sponsored by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, that would direct $7.95 billion to cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells across the country. (Eddie Moore / Albuquerque Journal)

Capital High School's Alan Gutierrez, a senior, participates in batting practice at the school Thursday. With former baseball player Nicholas Salazar now on board as coach, the program is showing improvement. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The well that supplies water to Cañoncito sits near the very dry Galisteo Creek. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The community of Eldorado, south of Santa Fe, is in stage 1 water restrictions due to long-lasting drought. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this June 1 photo, Michael Arias of Albuquerque fishes along the Pecos River near Terrero. The state is offering hunting and fishing licenses as part of a campaign to encourage new vaccinations against COVID-19. Arias has already been vaccinated. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Rio Arriba County Sheriff James Lujan and his attorneys walk out of the courtroom in Tierra Amarilla for the lunch break on the first day of his trial. Lujan is facing charges of bribery of a witness and harboring a fugitive. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham spins a wheel to award lottery scratch-off tickets and other prizes to COVID-19 vaccine recipients in Santa Fe in this June 2 file photo. The state's vaccine administration rate increased slightly in the days after the lottery initiative was announced. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

A large box now stands on the Santa Fe Plaza where the Soldiers' Monument stood until protesters toppled it last October. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

A concrete slab is all that remains of the Don Diego de Vargas sculpture that stood in Cathedral Park. City workers removed it last June and put the sculpture into storage. ( Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar and Apothecary Restaurant is among more than a dozen businesses that filed lawsuits last year against top state officials over financial losses incurred during the pandemic. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Monday that business losses related to COVID-19 restrictions are not automatically grounds for compensation under state law. The ruling came months after the court heard arguments in the case. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this file photo, Sen. Katy Duhigg, D-Albuquerque, stands in the Senate chambers during debate on a bill to expunge cannabis-related criminal convictions.(Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

David Gonzalez, 19, of Albuquerque fishes along the Pecos River near Tererro last week. The state Game Commission is scheduled later this month to consider petitions that would affect public access to some waterways. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this 2019 photo, methane gas is burned off at the site of three oil wells near Carlsbad. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Rusty and Violet Martin, from Canyon Lake, Texas, have lunch in the patio area of the Plaza Cafe in downtown Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Meow Wolf's The House of Eternal Return in 2019. The Meow Wolf Workers Collective announced Friday that it ratified a four-year union contract with Meow Wolf that includes worker protections and benefits like guaranteed salaries for all artists. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Kelly Quintia, left, with her daughter Zevi Keyes, 3, center, and Marna Hitt, second from left, and her daughter Vivi Hitt, 3, listen to country music by Johnny Lloyd and Tim "Timbo" Arnold, right, on the Plaza last week. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Daniel Caldera, owner of El Molero Fajitas, and his daughter Gabriella recently resumed selling fajitas from their food cart on the Santa Fe Plaza. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Friday that New Mexico will eliminate its pandemic-related business restrictions on July 1. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Mario and Rebecca Sena, of Santa Fe, ride through the Santa Fe Plaza in their '72 Volkswagen Beetle last Tuesday. Even the cruisers are returning to the Plaza now that the pandemic has subsided. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Allen Bruce Paquin, from Jemez Pueblo, shows his jewelry on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Native American Artist Laverne Loretto-Tosa, from Jemez Pueblo, shows her pottery to people on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

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