Typings Blog

A box of crayons and colored pencils sits atop a $2,500 table in a formal dining room. A toy truck is parked in front of a four-car garage. A worn basketball and football rest in a sunken room attached to the downstairs master bedroom. For restaurateur Frank Marcello, owning a $1.3 million, 6,300-square-foot, five-bedroom, 4-bath … Read more

If you ask Walter Webb, Evergreen Hills is the Beverly Hills of Albuquerque. The 77-year-old retired welder and businessman was one of the first to move to the neighborhood roughly 25 years ago. He says the views, the tranquility and the wildlife are what’s so special about the area – a collection of majestic, mountainside … Read more

As far as Christmas presents go, it was one of the worst. On Dec. 24, 2003, Jerry Shipman, president of the Better Business Bureau of New Mexico, wrote some checks and popped them in his mailbox. He raised the red flag and forgot about them. By the middle of January, he discovered someone had stolen … Read more

They dot the streets like the abandoned toys of giants. There’s a bowling ball and pin big as a house. There’s a lumberjack tall as a tree. There’s John Wayne times 10. There’s a red arrow massive enough to make a missile cower. From humble beginnings as attention grabbers, these business signs and sculptures have … Read more

He stands on the bluffs of northwestern Albuquerque like some god overseeing his work. At night, he glows red like a frozen snapshot of flame. His hair is white, his boots black. He is inflatable, indefatigable. He is a 12-foot Santa Claus. “If there was a bigger one, I might have got it,” says Chris … Read more

Former Gov. Gary Johnson has been through it. Neil Hise, president of an Albuquerque manufacturing firm, has been through it. It is getting sued, and though statistically on the decline, a fear of crippling lawsuits pervades the New Mexico business community. It’s a fear driven in part by high-profile tort cases – the McDonald’s hot … Read more

In Robert Thomas’ east Downtown loft, 15-foot tall ceilings hang like a surrogate sky, white pipes poke in and out of the space, and Shelby’s gigantic litter box – big enough for a bobcat – sits along one wall. But Shelby is no bobcat, nor a grotesquely oversized house cat. Shelby is, in fact, a … Read more

Certified public accountant Sheryl Brown hasn’t bought any new filing cabinets for a year, but don’t blame her. Blame her computer. After all, it’s the thing letting her 5-year-old accounting firm – Taking Care of Business – get closer and closer to the Albuquerque businesswoman’s dream: a paperless office. Brown’s computer is just one soldier … Read more

As a boy, Ron Glaser tied ropes to the twisting branches of cottonwood trees and swung over the irrigation ditches crisscrossing the fertile stretch of land along the Rio Grande known as the North Valley. “We had one right behind the Smith’s over here by Solar Road,” he says. “Some of these kids still use … Read more