Jesse Jones

By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — Tonight’s Albuquerque City Council meeting will feel like a continuation of the last one, with councilors revisiting a controversial zoning appeal fee proposal and other issues they left unresolved at the Oct. 5 meeting. Councilors postponed the zoning proposal and ran out of time to consider another item on […]

By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — Tonight’s Albuquerque City Council meeting will feel like a continuation of the last one, with councilors revisiting a controversial zoning appeal fee proposal and […]

By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — Thousands of people booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center each year depend on medical care and addiction treatment behind bars. Bernalillo County plans to take over those services in 2027 when its current contract ends next summer. Commissioners will consider using $30 million in county reserves to help fund […]

Southern Youth Solidarity Network, demanded disbandment of the university’s Turning Point USA chapter and banning of TPUSA speaker Joshua Haymes on campus.

Democrats brave a wet matanza to meet 2028 presidential hopefuls

By Jesse Jones and Kevin Hendricks, New Mexico Political Report — National Democrats came to Albuquerque on Saturday to get a taste of New Mexico, literally, at a matanza rally celebrating the state's new fourth-in-the-nation slot on the 2028 presidential primary calendar.

By Jesse Jones and Kevin Hendricks, New Mexico Political Report — National Democrats came to Albuquerque on Saturday to get a taste of New Mexico, literally, at a matanza rally […]

Eccentric, elderly, egotistical Montgomery “Monty” Gladstone is dead, finally. The citizens of Emory Heights will not miss his rude glares, nasty snarls, or insulting comments; however, they do wonder how

By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Everyone booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center gets a health screening. That was more than 26,000 people last fiscal year, and many of them […]

By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — The balloons came back down. Hotel rates didn’t. Albuquerque hotels earned about $30.5 million in room revenue during the 2026 Balloon Fiesta, up 9% […]