I cover child welfare for @thenewmexican. Previously @abqjournal, @csgazette. @Report4America corps member. 📧[email protected]. Opinions are mine.
Albuquerque, NM
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Here's to Ollie Reed Jr., one of the most talented writers I'll ever know. Ollie was affable, kind and a fixture of the Journal newsroom. Although I'm no longer a part of it, we'll miss him dearly. Rest in peace.
His swan song:
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RIP to the closest thing I ever saw to a real old school Cowboy poet. As good a storyteller as I've ever met.
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The sponsor of a bill that would create a tribal education trust fund said he's asked the Senate not to take it up after learning multiple amendments were going to be offered. #nmleg
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It's official: in the race for APS' District 2, @RonaldaTome has prevailed over incumbent Peggy Muller-Aragón
In the school board races for the biggest districts in the state, candidates supported by Moms for Liberty and the parental rights movement lost. Here's @ubercandelaria's coverage of the ABQ race where the conservative incumbent is down by a hair. abqjournal.com/news/election…
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In the school board races for the biggest districts in the state, candidates supported by Moms for Liberty and the parental rights movement lost. Here's @ubercandelaria's coverage of the ABQ race where the conservative incumbent is down by a hair. abqjournal.com/news/election…
Hundreds of years after his death, conquistador Juan de Oñate still seems to beget violence.
Final story with @MReisen88, with photos from the fearless @EddieMoore8, is here:
abqjournal.com/news/man-shot…
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Unfortunately, another thing that happened with this site switch, is pre-2020 online Journal archives are no longer publicly available.
You can still access them by a Newspapers.com account or other methods/outside archives I may not be aware of.
In August 2021 Vanessa Sawyer got news most parents dread — her grandson, Bennie Hargrove, was shot at school.
He died later that day.
Guns are still plaguing Albuquerque schools, now in record numbers. But how much is APS doing to trace their origins?
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ALT Vanessa Sawyer, grandmother of Bennie Hargrove, who was shot and killed at school in 2021, composes herself at Washington Middle School park in April. She’s sitting just a few hundred feet away from where her grandson was shot. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
In February, Al Burson got the same news — his son, Andrew, was shot and killed near West Mesa High School.
Amid several shootings near campus and three guns seized in less than a month, he and the school community are worried this is "still going on."
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ALT Al Burson visits the grave of his son, Andrew, at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in April. Even though it’s been over a year, he says he feels the loss as keenly as the day Andrew died. (Chancey Bush/Albuquerque Journal)
Just got out of an @ABQschools press conference, where they updated the school day start and end times they released almost two weeks ago.
I'm working on my story for @ABQJournal, but in the meantime, enjoy this thread with some of the details:
You can also find specific information about your school at the post we already have up:
abqjournal.com/2591497/middl…