Get back in your 'wayback' machine to 1986. After the general election that year Democrat Brant Calkins came out 800 votes ahead of his republican opponent Bill Humphries in the Land Commissioner race. A few days later a transcription error was found in the San Miguel County vote totals that completely turned the race around giving the win to Humphries. Humphries was not a bad guy, he was an old time republican who was conservative but not a wacko. My advice to Ray Powell is to park some sharp people in the Secretary of State's office to make sure she does a proper job of recounting the ballots. Because you are not out of this yet.
The peculiar hate of government jobs, the ones that pay well and provide benefits, continues in the Mayor's Office. Mayor Berry thinks we depend on them to much. Well, if he and his minions were doing a halfway decent job of economic development then they would just become part of a healthy mix. In fact, if Berry was smart he would pursue the Federal Government locating more back office operations here in Albuquerque. Much like the US Forest Service has done. They moved nearly 2000 jobs here some years back and hardly anyone noticed. But they are good jobs for our city and we could use more like them.
In a plus for Berry it seems he is making an effort at reviving downtown redevelopment that was abandoned by Mayor Marty Chavez. Molina Health Care is moving 600 employees down there and the UNM/City/Business efforts there may pay off too. Meanwhile the parochial minded city council can't give up little projects of their own to do one large one for the good of the whole city. I still say a good multi purpose arena downtown would provide another great center for activity. But that is big idea stuff that the council can't seem to embrace.
Speaking of Marty Chavez, he is now on the payroll of those who don't want to see internet neutrality maintained. And he says he is representing Latinos around the country. I kind of doubt that is true.
The peculiar hate of government jobs, the ones that pay well and provide benefits, continues in the Mayor's Office. Mayor Berry thinks we depend on them to much. Well, if he and his minions were doing a halfway decent job of economic development then they would just become part of a healthy mix. In fact, if Berry was smart he would pursue the Federal Government locating more back office operations here in Albuquerque. Much like the US Forest Service has done. They moved nearly 2000 jobs here some years back and hardly anyone noticed. But they are good jobs for our city and we could use more like them.
In a plus for Berry it seems he is making an effort at reviving downtown redevelopment that was abandoned by Mayor Marty Chavez. Molina Health Care is moving 600 employees down there and the UNM/City/Business efforts there may pay off too. Meanwhile the parochial minded city council can't give up little projects of their own to do one large one for the good of the whole city. I still say a good multi purpose arena downtown would provide another great center for activity. But that is big idea stuff that the council can't seem to embrace.
Speaking of Marty Chavez, he is now on the payroll of those who don't want to see internet neutrality maintained. And he says he is representing Latinos around the country. I kind of doubt that is true.
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