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This is an essay I wrote about the murder of my brother, Tim Tumolillo, in February 2002. If you know who shot him and why, please let me know so my family and I can have some peace. He was our son, our brother, and our friend. This is his gravestone. You can reach me … Read more

From 1980 to 1998, Robert Fraser kept tabs on refrigeration units – long as a UPS truck and half as tall – that were kept inside Intel’s Rio Rancho facility at just the right temperature. Upon retirement, his title was supervisor of the company’s energy center, but he had another one: the guy who came … Read more

Frank Smith, a deacon at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, still feels amazed about the first meeting with his new pastor. About 90 people had gathered in a church member’s backyard. On their way in, they introduced themselves to the Rev. Monsignor Douglas Raun. After the meal, Raun went from table to table, getting to know … Read more

Peter Espinosa, principal of Kirtland Elementary School, knows what having the best facilities possible means to students. “What it says to kids is we really value you, we value your education and we have high expectations for you,” he says. “We’re inviting you to this wonderful environment because we care about you. It gives teachers … Read more

For $2,000 you can get a lot of things: a used car, a computer or, if you head to the new hotel at the Sandia Resort & Casino, the equivalent of a small house for a night. The hotel’s three, $2,000-a-night, 1,800-square-foot “super suites” – the largest of 228 rooms opening Thursday – are bigger … Read more

Start-up companies looking for help with commercializing their latest and greatest technology will have a new, 5,000-square-foot ally along the state’s border with Mexico. The Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory in Santa Teresa will offer financial assistance, limited laboratory space, office space and institutional partnerships to high-tech companies in an attempt to spur economic development along the … Read more

A few years ago, John Gonzales rode his candy-blue and slate-gray Harley-Davidson FXR more than 150 miles for a hamburger. Yes, it was some hamburger – one pound of a “great hamburger,” he says. But the burger was just an excuse. What Gonzales was after was a ride, a ride with hundreds of other leather-clad … Read more

Biodiesel can be produced from vegetation such as soybeans, sunflowers and rapeseed, but the best way to create the fuel may come from a little organism that likes sewage, grows in water and can produce up to 50 percent of its body weight in oil. “The plus for algae . . . you can grow … Read more

This is a sidebar to an article about biodiesel, “Pumped for the Future.” Biodiesel has grown in popularity throughout the state and country as more Americans look to alternative fuels that offer renewability, gently treat the environment and don’t rest in foreign countries. Here’s a rundown of some New Mexico companies and organizations using biodiesel: … Read more

In Fiona Sinclair’s back yard, a long sausage-shaped filter suspended above a plastic bucket drips and plops, plops, plops thick, golden droplets of a fluid she says could be the fuel of the future. The fluid is used vegetable oil. Its destination is the red tank stuck into the trunk of a modified Volkswagen Jetta … Read more