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When Mike Berry’s weekly gasoline bill hit nearly $100 a week, he decided it was time for a change. “I don’t like giving the gas companies $400 a month,” says the 56-year-old air traffic controller with the Federal Aviation Administration. “It was kind of a breaking point.” So Berry – a Los Lunas resident who … Read more

When Bill Baca sits down at the balloon fiesta to eat his daily meal from Day’s Famous Indian Pueblo Fry Bread, there’s a certain choreography to his consumption. “I eat the filling first, and the sopaipilla last,” says the 56-year-old balloon crew chief, who has dined upon Day’s dish at every Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta … Read more

Looking at a map of winding paths cutting through the area north of Gallup, you’ll see the byways and highways named as one might expect: Hard Ground Canyon Road, White Cliffs Road, South White Smoke Wash Road, Becenti Trail. But keep on looking and you’ll come across a name that stands out like, well, a … Read more

What has Patty Grice worried about the Mountain View neighborhood in southern Albuquerque is the high number of people stuck with some kind of sickness. Grice, president of the Mountain View Neighborhood Association, knows many residents with respiratory problems. Three people in one area family have asthma, she says. She wonders about a number of … Read more

As task force leader of the New Mexico Department of Public Safety Urban Search and Rescue Team, Tom Romero has trained for crawling through collapsed buildings and searching for victims of terrorist attacks. But nothing prepared him for what he saw in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hammered its way through. “The scale of it … Read more

It would take a lot of solar panels to power the United States – so many, in fact, that they would fill almost 5 million football fields, says a spokesman with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It’s an area about one-twelfth the size of the Land of Enchantment. Public Service Company of New Mexico’s proposed … Read more

Lisa Ayres doesn’t know where she’s going to find the 30 minutes to write about her business every day, but she plans on tracking them down. It’s well worth her while, she said, because the writing will be published on a Web-based platform that more and more businesses are latching onto as a way to … Read more

Stigma against mental illness can make the workplace a tough place to be for those battling the health problem. People dealing with mental illness say some co-workers unfairly assume colleagues with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia will blow up or won’t be able to handle their jobs. But a New Mexico lawyer who prefers to be … Read more

Eric Morgan knows about stress. It’s something the employees he supervises battle every day as they field hundreds of calls inside Public Service Company of New Mexico’s customer care center. The calls can get heated, Morgan says. Customers might want something the company simply cannot give them. There can be verbal attacks. “Some (employees) become … Read more

Christian Dimery is happy to have the street outside his antique shop closed down today, even though it might mean fewer customers. After all, the industry doing the closing also does great business with Morningside Antiques at 4001 Central Ave. N.E. From 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. today, Central Avenue between Washington Street and Carlisle … Read more