The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) articles from June 2002, page 3

The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) archives from June 2002

JAN'S MAILBOX.(Evening)
June 20, 2002... Byline: Jan Jonas Today is Girl Scout day for me. I'm devouring the last of the Thin Mint cookies while writing this column. The Girl Scouts of Chaparral Council Inc. recently announced recipients of the Girl Scout Gold Award for...

Cats are frisky, fun and clever - and with me, a package deal.(Evening)
June 20, 2002... Byline: Jen Barol and Pasha When I was a kid, I kept my jewelry in a little ceramic box shaped as a cat, with the phrase, "Love me, love my cat," engraved on the inside. I didn't appreciate then the meaning of the expression until I...

Airline: Extra seat, not perks.(Evening)
June 20, 2002... Byline: Dan Mayfield DMAYFIELD@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3620 The preferred term is "passengers of size," and it has created a rather large bit of controversy for Southwest Airlines. Southwest, the leading air carrier at Albuquerque...

EDITORIAL.(Evening)
June 20, 2002... Troops on the border aren't best solution Illegal immigrants are still pouring over U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada, and it's time to bring in the troops thousands of them say some members of Congress. They should hold their horses....

EDITORIAL.(Evening)
June 20, 2002... On missile defense, secrecy is troubling The Bush administration is determined to push ahead with a missile defense system, and now it is proposing to do so without a whole lot of scrutiny from Congress, the press, the program's skeptics...

Disease threatens hunt turnout.(Midday)
June 20, 2002... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 Detection this week of deadly chronic wasting disease in a New Mexico deer could hurt the state's multimillion-dollar hunting season. "We are concerned about that," Kerry Mower, a...

Six Lobos make student-athlete team.(Sports Extra)
June 20, 2002... Byline: John Whitmore jwhitmore@abqtrib.com / 823-3665 GOOD NEWS! The Mountain West Conference named six student-athletes from the University of New Mexico to the 2001-2002 Verizon Academic All District Team. To be eligible, a...

Urlacher: Bears are coming back with confidence.(Sports Extra)
June 20, 2002... Byline: Brad Moore bmoore@abqtrib.com / 823-3679 As the Chicago Bears approach their 2002 training camp, which begins July 26, Brian Urlacher says he and his teammates are traveling on a new path of enlightenment. "We know we're...

One guy upright. Another guy choking him. With his feet. Cool.(Sports Extra)
June 20, 2002... Byline: Richard Stevens Commentary In bringing his opponent to submission, maybe Albuquerque's Thomas Schulte had the best and kindest route to victory. He did it quickly. Schulte choked out Mark Beecher in 34 seconds the...

LIVING WITH LIMITS.(Sports Extra)
June 20, 2002... Byline: Jeff Carlton jcarlton@abqtrib.com / 823-3662 Life for Kip Luna is not as it used to be. Days once full of basketball and verve are now filled with rehab and lulls as he tries to relearn once-routine functions. His days are...

Embattled teacher worked as sub.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Rick A. Maese rmaese@abqtrib.com / 823-3687 APS lawyer advised hiding return to the classroom, teacher's husband says The husband of a teacher defending herself against accusations that she abused special education students...

Wasting disease strikes N.M. deer.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 An animal health emergency has been declared in New Mexico after a mule deer at White Sands Missile Range tested positive for deadly chronic wasting disease. This is New Mexico's...

DEAD IN A FLASH.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com / 823-3623 New Mexico leads the nation in per capita deaths from lightning. And in a scorched summer, flash floods might heighten the dangersof a stormy, savage Mother Nature. The summer...

New Mexico lists 3 firms approved for failing schools.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Jennifer W. Sanchez jsanchez@abqtrib.com / 823-3610 Three school management companies have made the state's list of approved firms that could take over failing New Mexico schools facing corrective action in the fall. State...

City set to grapple with growth.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Years in the making, the Planned Growth Strategy is set for public comment and council action. The 750-page Planned Growth Strategy started with one map and two meetings in the early...

Battles cost APS over $1.5 million.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Susie Gran SGRAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3682 Fighting and settling with its employees over the past two years cost Albuquerque Public Schools well over $1.5 million, a Board of Education committee was informed in a report. The...

APS seeks more details on takeover firms.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Susie Gran SGRAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3682 School management firms that want to run Albuquerque's failing schools can expect to submit further information about themselves and their intended programs to the Board of Education. ...

Ousted chair skips meeting.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 Tony Schaefer, recently voted out as chairman of the Public Regulation Commission, refused to show up for this week's regularly scheduled PRC meeting. In his place, Schaefer...

Federal aid offered to dry N.M. farms.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: TRIBUNE STAFF New Mexico ranchers and farmers will be eligible for federal loans to help them overcome losses caused by severe drought conditions. Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation announced Tuesday that...

For forecasters, lightning strikes home.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Frank Zoretich Lightning has been more than a theoretical threat for National Weather Service personnel in Albuquerque. The weather service office at Albuquerque International Sunport has been struck twice by lightning, chief...

McKay airs Lobos' schedule plan.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Edgar Thompson ethompson@abqtrib.com / 823-3614 The University of New Mexico is close to finalizing a home-and-away series with the University of Tennessee in men's basketball, beginning next season in Knoxville, coach Ritchie...

EDITORIAL.(Evening)
June 19, 2002... Court rightly upheld freedom to knock door The Supreme Court was clearly right in telling Stratton, Ohio, that it could not require a permit for anyone and everyone who wanted to go knocking door to door for causes in the village. ...

Embattled teacher worked as sub.(Midday)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Rick A. Maese rmaese@abqtrib.com / 823-3687 Under a new name, a teacher accused of abuse was a substitute this spring An Albuquerque Public Schools teacher accused of abusing special-needs students at Double Eagle...

Ousted PRC chair skips meeting.(Midday)
June 19, 2002... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 Tony Schaefer, recently voted out as chairman of the Public Regulation Commission, refused to show up for this week's regularly scheduled PRC meeting. In his place, Schaefer...

Boy, 13, sentenced until age 21 in stabbing death.(Evening)
June 18, 2002... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger JGLENN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3603 A 13-year-old Albuquerque boy will spend the rest of his teen years in a state juvenile corrections facility for the murder of a neighbor, but the victim's family says the...

Growing in a drought.(Evening)
June 18, 2002... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 Higher prices, rationed resources and lots of anxiety are all side effects of drought for farmers. But the city of Albuquerque's promise to deliver additional water has provided some...

Compromise plan approved to ban new Big-I billboards.(Evening)
June 18, 2002... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Marilynn Cooper says she grimaces every weekday morning on her way to work as she passes by a billboard of blond twins smiling down on her from a Coors Light ad near her job. "It's...

Prison edginess fills doctor's novel - as it did his days.(Evening)
June 18, 2002... Byline: Kate Nelson Commentary In 1995, Dr. Joe Wise left a cardiology practice in New England and moved to Santa Fe. He wasn't ready for easy living, but his efforts to find a new job stalled. Then he saw the billboard. "New...

APS board keeps option open on trio leadership.(Evening)
June 18, 2002... Byline: Avery Holton aholton@abqtrib.com / 823-3632 The Albuquerque Board of Education remained uncommitted after a second hearing from the public on the structure of the district's upper administration. The board has been...

Wastewater facility gets loan to snuff sour smells.(Evening)
June 18, 2002... Byline: TRIBUNE STAFF Albuquerque's Southside Water Reclamation Plant will receive a $12 million boost for a major upgrade. A federal loan to the city scheduled to be announced this afternoon will finance improvement at the plant to...

New Qwest CEO pledges service.(Evening)
June 18, 2002... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 The new CEO of Qwest Communications International said today the decision to take the helm of the troubled telecom company was an easy one. "It took about a nanosecond to...

EDITORIAL.(Evening)
June 18, 2002... Congress shouldn't rush homeland security plan President Bush spent part of last week traveling around the country, exhorting the American people to pressure their congressmen and U.S. senators for quick approval of the massive government...

Horses, hands, healing.(Evening)
June 18, 2002... Byline: Story and photos by Stacia Spragg When racehorses need more than a rubdown, masseuse Robin Chiesa has the touch Moagly, a striking, strapping racing thoroughbred belonging to Carl Dyer, drags his front hoof back and forth in...

GETTING WATER TO THE WEST SIDE.(Evening)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Jail well could cause delays, but officials are optimistic The water 2,000 feet below the Metropolitan Detention Center is loaded with poison and almost too hot to touch. At least...

Padre Pio blessed her life early on.(Evening)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Rick A. Maese rmaese@abqtrib.com / 823-3687 Rita Tomasetti talked with Padre Pio for years. Still does, in fact. It wasn't long ago that Tomasetti sat down and told Padre Pio the Italian monk she says has directed her...

Researchers see fertile opportunity in dirty air.(Evening)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Sue Vorenberg svorenberg@abqtrib.com / 823-3678 BRIGHT IDEA LOS ALAMOS In the near future, farmers might flock to big cities to collect valuable pollution. Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are investigating...

Big-I billboard ban faces council.(Evening)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Rick Roberts doesn't care if the Big-I has landscaping or not. He's more interested in the other, non-natural decoration: billboards. Specifically, he's focused on getting rid of...

Eclipse official: Waterline vital to business.(Evening)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Dan Mayfield DMAYFIELD@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3620 Eclipse Aviation Corp. means to break ground on its proposed aircraft manufacturing plant in 2004, but the company's CEO wants assurances the city will provide water service to the...

Carbon proves crucial to the quality of soils.(Evening)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Sue Vorenberg svorenberg@abqtrib.com / 823-3678 Scientists say there is strong evidence that carbon dioxide has nearly doubled in the atmosphere in the last 200 years. At the same time, the amount of carbon in average soils...

Dad jailed after baby is injured.(Evening)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 A 4-month-old baby was struggling to recover from severe brain damage this morning while her father sat in jail, authorities said. Robert Mountjoy was arrested Sunday afternoon...

ALMANAC.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... TECHNOLOGY The National Center for Genome Resources has hired Geert Wenes as program leader for bioinformatics in the Bioinformatics Department. "Dr. Wenes is a world-class scientist with a distinguished record of accomplishment in...

Government bucks.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Thomas Hargrove hargrovet@shns.com / (202) 408-2703 The feds spent $4.9 billion in New Mexico in fiscal 2001, giving the state one of the nation's highest per-capita collection rates of federal monies WASHINGTON The exact...

Government bucks.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 Akal Security has become the nation's largest provider of security for U.S. courthouses, netting more than $133 million in federal contracts It's no secret that security is a...

Online cigarette seller starts advertising.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Dan Mayfield DMAYFIELD@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3620 There are some tax increases Rick Urrea doesn't mind. New York and California recently boosted their state sales taxes on cigarettes as much as $15 a carton. And that has been...

SMALL-BUSINESS BRIEFS.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Tribune staff Albuquerque-based POD Associates Inc. has restructured into three divisions. The PODData division will handle software database development and services. The PODNet division will provide computer support, such...

Business ethics nominees sought.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... Byline: TRIBUNE STAFF The Samaritan Counseling Center is seeking nominations for its 2003 Ethics in Business Awards. The awards are an annual recognition of for-profit businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals whose present...

State gets $4.6 million for call center project.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... Byline: TRIBUNE STAFF Some $4.6 million has been released by the federal government to start a worker training program for the call center industry in New Mexico. U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, said the Department...

Tourism campaign uses D.H. Lawrence's allure.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 A new TV spot promoting New Mexico tourism uses D.H. Lawrence to woo visitors to the Land of Enchantment. The 60-second spot was developed by Rick Johnson & Co. Advertising as...

THE SHAPE OF SUCCESS.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Nancy Salem nsalem@abqtrib.com / 823-3675 From an archive in Santa Fe to a luxury lodge in Chama, the year's best buildings were the best of a great crop, judges said The nominations came from architects, contractors, owners...

Doctors find success in founding cancer center.(Albuquerque Business)
June 17, 2002... Byline: Nancy Salem nsalem@abqtrib.com / 823-3675 The New Mexico Cancer Center is a business gamble that appears to be paying off. Barbara McAneny, who founded the center this year with five other physicians, said the gamble was...

A different type of hotshot crew.(Weekend)
June 15, 2002... Byline: Rick A. Maese rmaese@abqtrib.com / 823-3687 Inmates from the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility are out in the thick of things, fighting fires alongside professional firefighters. In the process, they're learning a lot...

Sunport shapes system to sniff out trouble.(Weekend)
June 15, 2002... Byline: Avery Holton AHOLTON@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3632 Albuquerque International Sunport continues to make plans for the new world of security that awaits at year's end. By that time, visitors to the Sunport might feel like they're...

A loving dad's holiday wish: a healthy, happy little girl.(Weekend)
June 15, 2002... Byline: Kate Nelson Commentary His 26-year-old face no longer flickers with the fire of youth. His eyes are rimmed with red, his forehead is tensed with fear. Jerry Bagwell sits in a fog at Albuquerque's Ronald McDonald House, awake...

Sergeant named liaison for new jail.(Weekend)
June 15, 2002... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 The Albuquerque Police Department has created a new position in hopes of making booking more efficient at the new West Side jail. Deputy Chief Ray Schultz said newly promoted...

City police lauded with new titles.(Weekend)
June 15, 2002... Byline: Andy Lenderman ALENDERMAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3659 A slew of promotions has placed three captains in new jobs within the Albuquerque Police Department. Capt. Greg Sanchez will oversee the professional standards division,...

Board to mull superintendent issue.(Weekend)
June 15, 2002... Byline: Susie Gran SGRAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3682 The Albuquerque Board of Education has scheduled a closed meeting Monday evening to talk to its three interim superintendents about their future. Board President Leonard DeLayo said...

Awesome Audi shoots for third straight win at Le Mans.(Weekend)
June 15, 2002... Byline: Charles Googe Commentary The 24 Hours of LeMans celebrates its 70th birthday this weekend with Audi going for its third straight win in the French endurance classic. Since 2000, Audi has garnered five of the six podium spots,...

EDITORIAL.(Weekend)
June 15, 2002... Los Alamos case shows secrecy's dark side A federal judge has slapped down yet another Bush administration attempt to assert broad, unchecked powers of secrecy. At issue is a manuscript by Danny Stillman, a retired top official at...

Hibben, 91, excavated Sandia Man.(Weekend)(Obituary)
June 15, 2002... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com / 823-3623 Frank C. Hibben, a retired University of New Mexico professor internationally known as an anthropologist and archaeologist, has died. He was 91. Hibben died Tuesday in his...

CORRECTIONS.(Weekend)
June 15, 2002... A story in Thursday's Neighborhood Trib should have said that dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa is genetic and caused by a recessive gene that must be carried by both parents. Correction: See story "Faith & Family," 06/13/02, page B1.

Rediscovered heroes.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... More than 50 years after serving his country as a Code Talker in World War II, Billy Toledo (shown at age 21 in his Marine Corps uniform) says today's release of the movie "Windtalkers" has brought new attention and pride to the American...

ROCK-SOLID FAITH.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Daniel Libit dlibit@abqtrib.com / 823-3674 Grant Chapel AME Church celebrates 120 years as a pillar of the black community When you speak of a church, you usually speak of its congregation. That's true in the case of...

Juneteenth marks slaves' freedom day.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Delaney Hall dhall@abqtrib.com/ 823-3642 July 4, 1776, was not Independence Day for slaves in the United States of America. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on the first day of 1863, marked independence for many...

Professor, adventurer F.C. Hibben dies at 91.(Evening)(Obituary)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com / 823-3623 Frank C. Hibben, a retired University of New Mexico professor internationally known as an anthropologist and archaeologist, has died. He was 91. Hibben died Tuesday in his...

Deal considered in teen murder case.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger JGLENN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3603 A Children's Court judge will decide next week whether to approve a plea agreement tentatively reached in the case against a 13-year-old boy charged with raping and...

Dad, mom tell their side as kidnapping trial nears.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger jglenn@abqtrib.com / 823-3603 It won't be a typical Father's Day for either of Matthew Propp's two dads one in New York City fighting to claim his son, the other leaving for New York today to fight to...

State Fair Commission wants to sue The Downs.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 New Mexico State Fair officials want the state attorney general to sue The Downs at Albuquerque for breach of lease. At issue is several hundred-thousand dollars the fair contends...

Police adopt grant changes.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Andy Lenderman alenderman@abqtrib.com / 823-3659 Chief Gilbert G. Gallegos has consolidated financial oversight of grants within the Albuquerque Police Department. At a Police Oversight Commission on Thursday, Gallegos said...

Grant Chapel's elder testifies to struggle and strength.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Daniel Libit dlibit@abqtrib.com / 823-3674 For 71 years, Christina Houston has been a part of Grant Chapel's challenges and triumphs. "I have the distinguished title of being there the longest," says Houston, who is also...

For chairman, race doesn't define church.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Daniel Libit dlibit@abqtrib.com / 823-3674 Frank Jerabek grew up in Queens, N.Y., where the high schools were integrated. The churches, however, were another story. Jerabek was always intrigued by what was going on in a...

In the long run, dam will be boost, impact review says.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Kate Nash KNASH@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 The city's proposed dam on the Rio Grande could temporarily harm the bosque where it would be built, as well as affect the population of the endangered silvery minnow, according to a draft...

N.M. party chairmen meet, promise clean campaigns.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Avery Holton AHOLTON@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3632 The bruises left by New Mexico's statewide primary campaigns are still visible, more than a week after the punches stopped. Republicans and Democrats denounced negative campaigning...

Pyramid schemer to pay redress.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger JGLENN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3603 The man believed to be at the top of a multimillion-dollar pyramid scheme remains a free but poorer man today after a judge postponed sentencing but required the defendent...

After nixing Nashville, Santa Ana promoter turns to the ring.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Richard Stevens Commentary When Mark Russo said goodbye to Nashville, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, the canvas he had in mind wasn't supposed to be splashed by blood and spit and bordered by four posts. Russo returned to his...

Six figures on the line in The Downs Handicap.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Brad Moore bmoore@abqtrib.com / 823-3679 Money doesn't grow on trees at The Downs at Albuquerque, it grows in slot machines. The one-armed moneymakers, which began taking root at racetracks across the state in 1999, are...

Qwest files to sell long-distance.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 Qwest Communications International Inc. has filed with the Federal Communications Commission to sell long-distance services in five states. The states are Colorado, Idaho, Iowa,...

The essence of Dad.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... When I asked my colleagues to contribute short essays describing a defining moment with dadfor a Father's Day issue of La Vida, I expected poignancy. What I did not expect - but got -was so much pain. Having been raised by a doting single...

'Peter Pan' flight of fantasy depends on way more than wires.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Jeff Commings JCOMMINGS@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3684 Eight-year-old Damon Doyle waddles around the Popejoy Hall stage, obviously uncomfortable in the black harness strapped to his body, but still grinning with anticipation. Four...

Where credit is due.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Jeff Commings JCOMMINGS@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3684 Truth-stretching Hollywood has taken hold of a story familiar to New Mexicans - the Navajo Code Talkers of WWII. Laguna resident Billy Toledo and other surviving memberssay some...

Camera strays too often and dilutes the real story.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Jeff Commings JCOMMINGS@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3684 REVIEW If it were just another John Wayne-inspired war film, "Windtalkers" would be serviceable summer entertainment. But the filmmakers take the important and little-told...

Group hopes 'Pan' can get MTS soaring.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Jeff Commings JCOMMINGS@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3684 Musical Theatre Southwest is deep in the financial hole and is tired of maintaining its game face. People outside and inside the 35-year-old company have speculated on...

Corpse in a Duke City bathtub starts hunt for the killer.(Evening)
June 14, 2002... Byline: J.M. Barol jbarol@abqtrib.com / 823-3612 Albuquerque has found itself the setting of a murder mystery. Don't worry. La Vida isn't covering the city's unsolved homicide beat. (Not yet, anyway.) We have hard-working news...

Dad, mom tell side as kidnap trial nears.(Midday)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger jglenn@abqtrib.com / 823-3603 It won't be a typical Father's Day for either of Matthew Propp's two dads one in New York City fighting to claim his son, the other leaving for New York today to fight to...

Voters overwhelmingly rejected district's levy.(Midday)
June 14, 2002... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com / 823-3623 The Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District had sought a 1-mill tax from property owners. It becomes official today: Voters on Monday crushed any hope the Ciudad Soil and...