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Albuquerque opens early election voting
From KRQE-TV.com - Albuquerque voters can begin having their say on City Council candidates, red-light cameras and $214 million in bond proposals starting Wednesday. Early voting continues through Sept. 30 for the Oct. 4 elections with polling sites open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. For the first time on Election Day Albuquerque voters will be able to vote at any polling place in the city. A complete list of early voting sites and regular polling places and be found on the city clerk's website . The 12 bond proposals would pay for libraries, streets and other improvements and help pay for rebuilding the Paseo del Norte and Interstate 25 interchange. Another would fund construction of a sports complex. City officials said that none of the bond proposals would result in a tax increase. Also on the ballot are the controversial red light camera program and four City Council seats. Read more
Ban recommended on trucker cell use and texting
From the El Paso Times - BRETT BARROUQUERE, AP - LOUISVILLE - No cellphones while driving, period. That's the rule the National Transportation Safety Board wants for the nation's more than 2.8 million truckers and bus drivers. The change proposed Tuesday would be among the most sweeping highway safety measures since the push for mandatory seat belts decades ago, but many truckers think it goes too far, especially because it would bar not only hand-held but hands-free devices. The NTSB enthusiastically endorsed the ban after ruling on a fiery Kentucky wreck that killed a trucker and 10 people in a van on their way to a wedding. The board said the trucker was distracted by his hands-free cellphone. NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said similar recommendations about phone use have already been made in aviation and for ship operators. CB radio use would not be affected. "It may not be something that's widely embraced. This is not going to be popular. But, we're not here to be popular. We're here to do what needs to be done," Hersman said. The NTSB lacks the authority to make such regulations. It sent its recommendation to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and all 50 states for action. The U.S. Department of Transportation bars commercial drivers from texting while driving, and violators are subject to civil penalties of up to $2,750. Some states ban everyone from using hand-held cellphones while driving. Read more
Cuba to drill six oil wells off Florida coast
From the Campaign 2012, the Washington Examiner - byMark Tapscott Editorial Page Editor - President Obama and his Interior Secretary Ken Salazar have all but shut down the U.S. oil and natural gas industry drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, but foreign powers like China, Cuba and Venezuela aren't hesitating to move in to take advantage of America's bureaucratic paralysis. Global Post reports preparations are moving forward for six wells in an area off the Florida coast in which U.S. experts have estimated could contain five billion barrels of oil. The Cubans are moving to tap into this potential energy bonanza with extensive aid from China, which built the massive drilling rig, and Hugo Chavez' Venezuela, which is providing drilling and production expertise. A Spanish firm, Repsol, with partners in Norway's Statoil and Italy's Saipem, will oversee the operation. For more from Global Post, go here. Not by coincidence, the latest data on U.S. drilling activity shows a continuing decline in the number of rigs in operation. The Washington Post reports this morning that another 10 units stopped operating, leaving a total of 1,958. Read more
Commentary: The great outdoors giveaway
From NM Politics.net - By Nathan Newcomer, associate director of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. - Congressman Pearce is an original co-sponsor of the Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act, or more aptly put, the Great Outdoors Giveaway Act. This risky legislation would open tens of millions of acres of protected public land to full-scale development, including 2 million acres in New Mexico. The legislation gives polluters and developers, who already have access to 76 percent of all national forests and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, access to even more of America’s vanishing wilderness. This bill is a blank check for polluters to ruin the air we breathe and water we drink. The Great Outdoors Giveaway would undermine decades of land protection in one fell swoop, and if signed into law would leave only 12 percent of our national forests and BLM lands off limits to development. If Congress were to pass this legislation, the American public would witness the worst sell-off of our nation’s most scenic treasures in living memory. Read more
Flight on 9/11 anniversary ends in handcuffs for housewife
From MSNBC.com - By Elizabeth Chuck - Shoshana Hebshi will never forget where she was on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. She and two other airline passengers were handcuffed and strip-searched after flying into Detroit on Sunday. No charges were filed against Hebshi, a self-described "half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife living in suburban Ohio," or the two men sitting next to her, who were flying in from Denver when the crew of Frontier Airlines Flight 623 alerted authorities that they were reportedly behaving suspiciously. In a blog post titled "Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit," Hebshi, an American citizen, told her tale of temporary detainment, which she had begun to share with Twitter followers in real-time — until handcuffs were placed on her wrists. Hebshi, a writer and editor and mother of twin sons, didn't know the other two passengers in Row 12. They were Indian men, she wrote. And they didn't know each other. But they got a lot closer when they were all crammed into the back of a squad car. What happened, according to Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuk, begins with a bathroom. "One of the males, who was not feeling well, got up to use the restroom during the flight. The other male got up at approximately the same time to use the restroom. The female remained seated in her row," the FBI said in a statement. Read more
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