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Dec 31st & Jan 1st
US West advises to stay off the phone (ie, don't log onto the internet).
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Poison Control Center - ABQ - 272-2222
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Mountain
Time
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Police - ABQ - 242-2677
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Free Doghouse 768-1948
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Police - Chacon 87108 Substation - 256-2050
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New Mexico ACORN - 244-1086
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Dental Clinic - ABQ - 768-5450
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Homework Hotline - ABQ - 343-4300
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PTA Clothes Bank - ABQ - 344-7481
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ABQ Mayor Jim Baca - 768-3000
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Community Center - Mesa Verde - 256-2091
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Albuquerque Indian Center - 268-4418
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Community Center - Cesar Chavez - 256-2680
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Bernalillo County Government
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Speed Dial
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License and Registration
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Albuquerque@starheart.net
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Jan 4 - Tuesday - 6:30 PM
La Mesa Neighborhood Asso
Mesa Verde Community Center
1st Tuesday each month.
"Domestic violence is the number cause of women in Albuquerque being treated
in an emergency room."
- Jeff Romero, District Attorney
New Mexico Weather
New Mexico Disaster Center
Jan 10 - Mon - 6 PM
Art Bell Chat Club
BEA's Restaurant, 8603 Zuni Rd SE at Wisconson St. (10th of each month.)
Jan 10 - Mon - 7PM
The Third Party
BEA's Restaurant, 8603 Zuni Rd SE at Wisconson St. (10th of each month.)
Jan 27 - Thursday - 7 PM
Trumbull Village Association
Cesar Chavez Community Center
Usually 4th Thursday each month.
New Mexico Governor and Illegal
Drugs FOX News' ``The O'Reilly Factor''
Why is the Federal Government Spraying the Population
of Albuquerque?
Political battle already under way over majority control of New Mexico Legislature
Crime Data
of 87108
April 14-16
The Prophets Conference ~ Santa Fe
In America, 100,000 students take a gun to school everyday. 200,000 students stay home everyday, because
they fear of being shot. 13 students are killed everyday in school.
Most drug users lack access to treatment
December 21, 1999
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drug-abuse treatment programs can result in major reductions
in drug use and related crime, but despite these positive effects, most drug users do not receive treatment, researchers
report. In fact, the number of treatment programs is declining.
According to Dr. Marjorie Gutman, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Dr. Richard Clayton, of
the University of Kentucky in Lexington, less than a quarter of drug users in the United States receives treatment
for addiction. During the last decade, not only has the number of drug-treatment programs declined, but also the
quality of the treatment has worsened, the researchers report in the November/December issue of the American Journal
of Health Prevention. Part of the problem is that managed care health plans often offer coverage for mental health
through a separate organization than for physical health, they note.
Despite the declining availability of drug treatment, from 30% to 50% of drug users who undergo treatment are able
to stay off drugs, according to the report. While this number may seem low, Gutman and Clayton point out that this
rate is similar to the percentage of people with diabetes or asthma who keep their condition under control.
However, for two groups of people, those who abuse more than one drug and those who are mentally ill, there are
few drug treatment programs designed to meet their needs, according to the authors. The researchers also report
that two drug-related programs, needle-exchanges for injection drug users and treatment for drug addicted pregnant
women, are the source of significant controversy.
On the prevention front, while some studies have shown that schoolchildren enrolled in drug-education programs
are about half as likely to use drugs as other kids, another study has found that DARE, a drug education program
used by more than half of all US schools, has little effect on drug use.
SOURCE: American Journal of Health Promotion 1999; 14:92-97.
Where in
the World is Carmen Albuquerque?
List
of States' Share of Farm Aid
10-22-99, Associated Press
Each state's estimated share of the $6 billion in special payments that
farmers will receive to compensate for low prices of grain, soybeans and cotton. Amounts, in millions of dollars,
exclude payments for weather-related crop losses and additional assistance for dairy producers and some speciality
crops. States Millions: Alabama 40, Arizona 41, Arkansas 281, California 196, Colorado 94, Connecticut 1, Delaware
6, Florida 8, Georgia 78, Idaho 68, Illinois 536, Indiana 267, Iowa 610, Kansas 405, Kentucky 64, Louisiana 144,
Maine 1, Maryland 18, Massachusetts 1, Michigan 109, Minnesota 365, Mississippi 141, Missouri 205, Montana 126,
Nebraska 423, Nevada 1, New Hampshire 0, New Jersey 3, New Mexico 20,
New York 31, North Carolina 69, North Dakota 250, Ohio 186, Oklahoma 151 Oregon 36 Pennsylvania 26, Rhode Island
0, South Carolina 31, South Dakota 181, Tennessee 61, Texas 481, Utah 7, Vermont 1, Virginia 24, Washington 92,
West Virginia 2, Wisconsin 132, Wyoming 8. Source: Agriculture Department.
Bus Route 25
Copper-Chico
The Transit Department of Albuquerque has a new route that's also novel. Bad news: it only runs
once an hour and there's no weekend service.
The good news: if where you're leaving and going is between Central and Lomas, Louisiana and Juan Tabo, then they'll
drop you off at the exact address or even pick you up (if you call two-hours early).
What I love about this concept is: if the elderly or handicapped live in such a zone within each
city, then such special services could be provided at a nominal cost to taxpayers.
New Mexico Information
ABQ Energy Management Office
New Mexico Business Weekly
Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory
Women and children advocates
oppose bankruptcy legislation
Big Business & Politicians
vs the People
Children's Advocates Working
on the Children's SSI Initiative
A group of social service providers, families with children with disabilities, legal services advocates,
and children's advocates. Coordinated service response for children with disabilities who face termination from
Federal income and medical benefits. Call 766-9361.
(For further edification see the
Bazelon Center Home Page.)
NM Association for Public Interest Law
for lawyers or officers of non-profits, 256-7690.
Judicial Education Center
Air View of the La Mesa District
Excite
Albuquerque
New Mexicom
Snap
New Mexico
Climate Change
in New Mexico
Albuquerque & New Mexico Links
Who's Who in Albuquerque Government
Weekly Alibi
Albuquerque Journal
NM Solar Energy Asso
Gray Panthers * Health News
AARP * Senior Housing
Senior Net * Retirement Net
Legalized gambling costs America
$5 billion a year in social costs.
10-26-99, CBS News
New Mexico Drug Policy
State of New Mexico
Congress approves bill raising pay for lawmakers,
next president
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress sent legislation to President Clinton today that would boost salaries for the next president,
federal workers and lawmakers themselves.
The pay raises were part of a $28 billion measure financing the Treasury Department and smaller agencies for fiscal
2000, which begins Oct. 1. The Senate gave final congressional approval to the bill by 54-38, with several senators
saying that many ``no'' votes were because of the pay raises for lawmakers. The House passed it by 292-126.
The bill, which Clinton is expected to sign, would open the door for a $4,600 pay raise for members of Congress
to $141,300 a year. The boost, which would take effect in January, would be lawmakers' first since January 1998
and second since 1993.
By law, legislators receive an annual salary increase unless they vote to block it, and the Treasury bill is the
traditional vehicle for doing that. The measure contained no language preventing the 3.4 percent increase, nor
was it mentioned during brief debate.
Under the legislation, the next president's salary would double to $400,000 in January 2001, the first increase
for the chief executive since 1969. And federal workers would get average pay raises of 4.8 percent, their highest
annual increase since 1981.
Visualize Whirled Peas
* Linda
Howe * Stan Deyo
* Wayne Green*
Laura Lee
* Richard Hoagland
* Art Bell
The Jobs Initiative
University of New Mexico
Western
Governors University
'Virtual University'
Has Quiet Start
August 23, 1999
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - So far, reality isn't
so pretty for the virtual university that opened a year ago amid a lot pomp and circumstance.
The Western Governors University was heralded as a landmark online college, and Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt predicted
that thousands of students would be enrolled within a few years.
But a year after the school opening with an operating budget and startup costs totaling $13 million,
only about 120 students have enrolled in slightly fewer than 130 courses offered over the Internet by various universities.
``It's very possible that (the publicity) has created an image for it that it will take some time
to fulfill,'' Leavitt said recently. It's just that the WGU faces a key visit from accreditors next year.
While about 100 more students have signed up for four unaccredited degrees in the past four months,
officials say it's the concept, not the numbers, that people should pay attention to.
``We're pioneering here,'' Leavitt said. ``We haven't succeeded at it yet, but we're clearly the
furthest along of anyone who's attempted it.''
Charlotte Farr, director of distance education and creative services at the University of Nevada-Las
Vegas, isn't so forgiving. She said she'd have a lot more students with the same funding.
``I'm dumbfounded,'' she said.
Western Governors University was the vision of Leavitt and former Colorado Gov. Roy Romer. It has
39 higher-learning institutions in 19 states and Guam offering courses over the Internet. The goal is to provide
college courses to isolated, rural citizens and training to workers in highly technical fields.
Measuring the success of an institution like WGU is difficult, said Leavitt, because, ``there is
no model to hold us up against.''
Maybe not for long. Michigan Virtual University was launched on Wednesday and Kentucky Commonwealth
Virtual University is expected to go online in the fall. While enrollment may be low at WGU, educators agree the
school has forced traditional universities to embrace, or at least grudgingly accept, distance learning as a way
to remain competitive.
``It certainly has given a vision to all higher education in the western United States that there
are other ways to get a degree,'' said Weldon Sleight, an associate vice president at Utah State University, a
WGU member.
WGU President Robert Mendenhall said he suspects thousands of students have used WGU's course catalog
to find Internet classes, only to go directly to the university providing the course to bypass WGU's $30 processing
fee.
For that reason, WGU has abandoned the fee in favor of an agreement under which member universities
share 30 percent of the tuition paid by students signing up through WGU. In exchange, WGU will market the courses
globally.
Leavitt says it is the degree programs that will make or break WGU.
The governor says enrollment in ``on track'' for the two-year associate degree programs in general
studies, network administration and electronic manufacturing, and the masters degree program in learning and technology.
Leavitt expects 300 students in the degree programs by the end of the year and believes that should
be enough for accreditors to evaluate the university when they visit early next year.
Without accreditation, WGU degrees are of little value. But Leavitt believes the school will be
accredited and enrollment will jump.
It will have to if WGU is to remain financially viable. Mendenhall says the school needs 3,000 students
in its degree programs to break even, a goal he expects to reach in three years.
The university's annual operating cost is about $4 million. It has relied so far on high-tech sponsors
such as Apple, IBM, Microsoft and America Online.
``If the overhead doesn't kill them then it has a chance of succeeding as people become more familiar
with the programs,'' said John Dunn, program manager for independent learning at the University of Colorado in
Boulder, a WGU member. Leavitt argues WGU's costs are slight compared to the $25 million it takes to construct
a single brick-and-mortar classroom building.
And he compares WGU's early problems to the University of Utah, founded in 1850. The school's current enrollment
is about 25,000 students.
``You know how many students the University of Utah had its first year?''
Leavitt answered, ``Twelve.''
Committee in Support of Zapatismo
Mondays - Noon
Weekly actions at the Mexican Consulate.
The Committee visits congresspersons, and so forth, attempting to get the Mexican Government
to honor accords they signed with the EZLN in Chiapas and to get the U.S. government to stop furnishing weapons
to the Mexican military and to close the notorious MURDEROUS School of the Americas.
It's Never Too Late
to Have a Happy Childhood
Official City Sites
Maps of New Mexico
A Kinder and Gentler Nation?
Right to Know Nothing
Broken teens left
in wake of private gain
Unemployment rate is 4.3%.
1.25 million jobs have been created in the first six months of '99.
(7-28-99 Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Holds Hearing on Humphrey-Hawkins Report on Monetary Policy.)
New Mexico
State Fair
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