The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) articles from January 2000, page 12

The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) archives from January 2000

Forum to explore 'digital divide' between urban and rural areas.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff The haves and have-nots of telecommunication will be the focus of "New Mexico's Digital Divide: Causes, Consequences and Solutions" this week. Sponsored by Denver's Center for the New West, the forum is the...

Y2K nonevent produces an odd and interesting New Year's.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Sherry Robinson PLANET BUSINESS Thursday and Friday were so quiet, I wondered if it was the lull before the storm. Turned out to be the lull before the lull. By the wee hours Saturday, I was sitting with a bunch of people,...

UNM offers laser-assisted eye surgery.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff Health care briefs University Hospital and the Department of Surgery at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine are offering LASIK vision correction surgery. LASIK laser-assisted in situ...

Taking cardiac health.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Nancy Salem nsalem@abqtrib.com / 823-3675 A new contract allows New Heart Inc. to get out of cramped quartersand expand itscomprehensive heart-disease rehab and prevention programs New Heart Inc., one of a handful of...

R.T. Guinn dunks his way off Lobo bench.(Sports)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Edgar Thompson TRIBUNE REPORTER Thw Valley High grad's best college game paced UNM's win over Washington. The search for a big man will continue, but the quest to find a bench might be over. Back-up R.T. Guinn's breakout...

Lobos cram to carry winning combinations into season play.(Sports)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Brad Moore bmoore@abqtrib.com / 823-3679 With the Mountain West Conference season closing in, New Mexico coach Don Flanagan says it's time to slow down the experiments and speed up the analyses. Thursday's game against New...

Aggies fall to SMU by nine.(Sports)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Wire reports UPDATE DALLAS Jeryl Sasser scored a game-high 25 points and Willie Davis and Quinton Ross each finished with a double-double to push SMU past New Mexico State 68-59 Sunday night. Davis scored 13 points and...

Lee case has ripped up the roots of his 'Americanized' family.
January 3, 2000... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ALAMOS The federal investigation and arrest of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee has shaken his family and left his two grown children groping for answers about how this could happen in America. "I...

Los Alamos provides new reasons for global warming.
January 3, 2000... Byline: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ALAMOS Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are reshaping the way scientists look at the theories behind global warming. Recent findings from the northern New Mexico lab suggest that global...

Survival gear now camping gear.
January 3, 2000... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Y2K FEARS FORGOTTEN Since the bug was pretty much a bust, once-frenzied shoppers can use survival equipment for future vacations. Y2K keepers: Underwear, outerwear, footwear. ...

N.M. drivers face icy roads.
January 3, 2000... Byline: STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS A blast of weekend winter weather has turned some New Mexico roads into dangerous ice rinks. A snowstorm centered over western New Mexico closed N.M. 44 between Cuba and Farmington today, and the state...

Police say fatal shooting of teen was an accident.(Local News)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF Police said a shooting that left an Albuquerque boy dead was apparently an accident. Sixteen-year-old Leon Perea was fatally shot while at home Saturday, Albuquerque Police Capt. Craig Loy...

Suspect in stabbing captured after chase.(Local News)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF A man accused of stabbing a woman, then fleeing her East Mountain home, was later involved in a high-speed chase that took him nearly to Santa Fe, Albuquerque Police Department Capt. Craig Loy...

Benavides will make bid as Reform candidate.(Local News)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports IN BRIEF Tom Benavides, a former Democratic state senator, says he will make another bid for the U.S. Senate, this time as a Reform Party candidate. "I think both (the Democratic and Republican)...

CORRECTIONS.(Local News)
January 3, 2000... A story in Saturday's edition should have said the city's New Year's Eve fireworks celebration cost approximately $15,000. See story 01/01/00 Pg. A1 "A GLORIOUS START'

Work begins on new agency headquarters.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff IN BRIEF Aardex Corp. plans to break ground next month on a new U.S. Forest Service regional headquarters in Downtown Albuquerque. The 100,000-square-foot building at Broadway and Lead will replace space...

RE/MAX agents increase sales.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff IN BRIEF New Mexico real-estate agents affiliated with RE/MAX International increased their sales volume 10 percent in the first nine months of the year compared with the same period last year. RE/MAX...

Construction on apartments begins.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff IN BRIEF Construction has begun on two apartment complexes in northwestern New Mexico funded by U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development. The $1.3 million, 20-unit Deer Hollow Senior Apartments in...

Hanford One buys Lomas Office Plaza.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff IN BRIEF The Lomas Office Plaza at Lomas and Eubank boulevards has been sold to Hanford One L.L.C. of Albuquerque. The center has 63,000 square feet of space in three buildings that are mostly vacant. The...

Zions, First Security postpone merger.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports WEEK'S TOP STORIES Zions Bancorp. will postpone its merger with First Security Corp. after announcing that it will restate its financial results back through 1996. The federal Securities and...

Atlas Travel marks 20 years in business.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff SMALL BUSINESS BRIEFS Atlas Travel & Cruise recently celebrated its 20th year in business. Earlier this year, owner Sandra K. Bundy was recognized by American Express Travel Related Services Co. as one of...

Computer Solutions awarded certification.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff SMALL BUSINESS BRIEFS Computer Solutions Group has been awarded the Okidata Platinum Reseller certification, the highest level of sales partnership available with Okidata. Computer Solutions Group has also been...

MediFAX approved for Medicaid IDs.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff HEALTH CARE BRIEFS New Mexico has approved MediFAX as an Internet provider of Medicaid eligibility verification. MediFAX, a subsidiary of The Potomac Group Inc., is a provider of health-care Electronic Data...

Cigna begins parents' program.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff HEALTH CARE BRIEFS Cigna Corp., the parent of Lovelace Health Systems, has begun an employee program for expectant parents. Cigna Babies is a source of information to support families through pregnancy and...

Sunsoft offers new contact lens option.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff HEALTH CARE BRIEFS Albuquerque-based Sunsoft Corp. is offering eye-care professionals an in-office fitting set for its Additions progressive soft contact lens for presbyopia. Presbyopia is a natural change...

Older men can get cancer screening.(Business)
January 3, 2000... Byline: Tribune staff HEALTH CARE BRIEFS Male Medicare beneficiaries age 50 and older will be eligible to receive an annual prostate cancer screening beginning Jan. 1. Medicare Part B will pay 80 percent of the Medicare-approved...

A glorious start.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com / 823-3623 January 1, 2000 The Y2K wave rippled around the planet and into Albuquerque.The clock struck midnight, and it was nothing but wonderful. Remember the 20th Century? ...

A glorious start.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 January 1, 2000 The Y2K wave rippled around the planet and into Albuquerque.The clock struck midnight, and it was nothing but wonderful. AT THE CELEBRATIONS Die-hards...

Everything 'rock-steady' in Y2K rollover.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Sherry Robinson srobinson@abqtrib.com AT THE POWER GRID It was a proud moment for Reddy Kilowatt. The thousands of people cheering New Year's fireworks in Civic Plaza didn't notice that the lights were still on. Street...

APD bike officers ride into new year, patrolling a calm city.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 2000 HAPPY NEW YEAR! ON TWO WHEELS Troy Chadwell spent the half hour around midnight under the concrete roof of a Downtown Albuquerque parking structure hiding from bullets. ...

A midnight kiss makes couple first newlyweds.
January 1, 2000... Byline: J.M. Barol jbarol@abqtrib.com / 823-3612 2000 HAPPY NEW YEAR ! AT THE ALTAR When Chris Martin and Marlo Marable decided to get married, saying "I do" in front of friends and family just wasn't enough. They wanted to...

Computer companies sleep tight knowing the Y2K bug didn't bite.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Dan Mayfield DMAYFIELD@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3620 2000 HAPPY NEW YEAR! IN THE SYSTEM At midnight, a Y2K countdown clock on a computer at New Mexico Internet Access Inc. "went crazy," said Stan Orrell, the president of NMIA....

It's business as usualas customers get cash.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Sherry Robinson srobinson@abqtrib.com / 823-3632 2000 HAPPY NEW YEAR! AT THE MONEY MACHINE Bank runs and ATM lines are only two of many Y2K doomsday scenes that didn't play out. Banks reported that on the day before...

Y2K turns out to be 'a bust' but a good one.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger jglenn@abqtrib.com / 823-3603 2000 HAPPY NEW YEAR! AT THE EOC High on a bluff west of the city, Albuquerque police dispatchers and 911 operators worked and watched and waited to see what the Year...

Stores yawn as the new century crawls into town.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Leanne Potts lpotts@abqtrib.com / 823-3676 2000 HAPPY NEW YEARS! IN THE STORES Ten minutes into the Year 2000, gasoline pumps were still working, alarms were quiet, and cash registers and ATMs were printing the right...

Hospitals celebrate as millennium babies arrive.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Nancy Salem nsalem@abqtrib.com / 823-3675 2000 HAPPY NEW YEAR! Tinsel covered the emergency room floor. The hundreds of staff on duty New Year's Eve at University Hospital had reason to celebrate. Seconds after...

Neighborhood breathes easy as Y2K comes and goes quietly.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Lawrence Spohn lspohn@abqtrib.com / 823-3611 2000 Happy New Year! They approached the new year from completely different perspectives. But for two families in Rio Rancho, Y2K was Yawn2K. Though she'd been concerned...

People of faith contemplate life as they say goodbye to 1999.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 2000 Happy New Year! Outside, cheering, the chiming of church bells and the violent bursting of fireworks shouted "It's 2000" to Albuquerque. But inside the Hidden...

Teens arrested in Clovis shooting.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports Local news at a glance CLOVIS Two teen-agers were being held on $100,000 bond in the shooting death of a man whose body was found lying face down on the front porch of a home here. Guadalupe...

Ewing getting defensive about her playing time.(Sports)
January 1, 2000... Byline: Brad Moore bmoore@abqtrib.com / 823-3679 When it comes to making baskets, Jasmine Ewing shows a flair for the game. But that's not enough for New Mexico women's basketball coach Don Flanagan. For his players to get...

THE EVOLUTION OF SPORTS: 2000 and beyond.(Sports)
January 1, 2000... Byline: Compiled by Rick A. Maese One hundred years ago, who would have guessed how much athletics would have evolved over such a short period of time? The Trib asked members of Albuquerque's sports world to predict how sports will...

Hoping to get 'into the flow,'Long has one thing in his favor.(Sports)
January 1, 2000... Byline: Edgar Thompson ethompson@abqtrib.com / 823-3614 Lamont Long can take comfort in one fact regarding Sunday's visit from the University of Washington: He can't play any worse than he did against the Huskies a season ago. ...

Murphy scores 3 in Scorpions win.(Sports)
January 1, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports UPDATE For the second straight game, forward Randy Murphy scored three goals, leading the New Mexico Scorpions to a 5-3 victory over the El Paso Buzzards on New Year's Eve at Tingley Coliseum. ...

Political surprises await in the new century.(Insight and Opinion)
January 1, 2000... Byline: Kate Nelson If you think Y2K promised chaos, peek into my crystal ball for the new millennium of New Mexico politics: nU.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, still smarting from the bruiser of a re-election campaign he endured in 1994,...

Van rollover kills 2 in Arizona.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports Local news at a glance TUCSON A van carrying at least 18 people rolled over on Interstate 10 near Benson, killing two people and injuring 16. Authorities said the passengers were illegal immigrants...

Counterfeiting investigated.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports Local news at a glance The Secret Service was looking into whether 20 people used computers to print phony money in the two weeks before Christmas. The investigation will be finished sometime in...

AT A GLANCE.
January 1, 2000... Byline: Staff and wire reports Local news at a glance Memorial fund for stabbing victim: A memorial fund has been established to help the family of Demetrius Sims pay for the youth's funeral. Sims, 16, died from a stab wound after an...