In 15 square miles of abandoned land, about 400 misfits—aging hippies, disillusioned veterans, teenage runaways—have built a community where no one cares if you smoke pot, fire your rifle all day, let your kids drive your car, or walk around naked in the desert heat. It’s a landscape of beat-up old trailers, shacks jerry-rigged from recycled materials, solar panels, little farms, greenhouses, and at least one tipi. “Where I live is the last remaining land of America that is left,” says Dreadie Jeff, another Mesa resident. “You can do what you fucking want there.”
Albuquerque Wants Free WiFi Citywide
The Mayor of Albuquerque wants free WiFi for everyone in the city.
a two-tiered wireless Internet signal covering the entire city that will support not just the basics of Web surfing, e-mail and the like, but phone service and video. Those two tiers are a free, 1 megabit signal for anyone and a premium service at 3 Mb for a “reasonable” cost.
Of course Comcast and Qwest don’t like it. I say screw ’em. Qwest especially doesn’t seem interested in offering extra services and Comcast would probably force everyone to pay $10/month for cable before you can use it. It’s the technical issues and money that will keep this from happening.
One wireless provider estimates it would cost $25 million and would require a access point on every building in the city, I think that’s overblown. They cite the problems that Rio Rancho has had completing it’s network. I thought Rio Rancho had completed it’s network.
I hope they try it anyways. I could use some free wifi when I have to drive into Albuquerque
Don't Fall For The Free Puppy Scam
Puppy scams are popping up in Arizona online and print classified ads, where the seller appears to be local and offers free English bulldogs or Yorkshire terriers. But when contacted by email, the seller says he or she is in Africa on a religious mission and promises to ship the dog overnight for a few hundred dollars.
Uh, that’s enough right there to raise the red flag on me. If I Couldn’t pick up the animal in person, then forget it. Apparently some people are not quite so savvy. savvy?
Poetry At Turtle Mountian
Join us for the inaugural poetry open mike in Rio Rancho at the Turtle Mountain Brewing Company ( 3755 Southern Boulevard ) on Monday June 4th, 2007 at 8 PM.
This will be the beginnings of a new reading in Rio Rancho, so all the help we can get the better.
Not my thing, but cool anyways. Link.
UFO Themepark To Be Built In UFO Capitol Roswell, NM
It could happen only in Roswell. City officials want to help build a UFO-themed amusement park, complete with an indoor roller coaster that would take passengers on a simulated alien abduction. he park could open as early as 2010. The city has received a $245,000 legislative appropriation for initial planning, but the park would be privately built and managed. Requests for proposals will be advertised next month. City Planner Zach Montgomery said the project will cost “several hundred millions of dollars,” but a more accurate figure hasn’t been determined. A roller coaster similar to the one proposed by Temmer is currently under construction at another theme park for almost $100 million, Montgomery said.
Third Bear Captured In Albuqerque Metro Area
New Mexico game officials have snagged another bear in the Albuquerque metro area – the third in eight days.Residents of the Southeast Heights reported seeing a black bear at about 1:30 a.m. near a mobile home park in the area of Central and Juan Tabo.
Bear In Rio Rancho
While I snoozed away this morning, a bear was on my street. They eventually caught up to him in a doctors office a few miles down Southern Ave. KOB has Late Night Visit By Rio Rancho's Finest
I’m sleeping on the couch tonight because I have a bunch of crap on the bed. I get settled in and start to doze off when I get a loud nock at the door. That freaks me out. I don’t have unannounced visitors at the house at this time of night. I look through the crack in the blinds and I see a Rio Rancho Police patch.
Yikes! I search around for my pants. I open the door and there are two Rio Rancho cops with flashlights out. They ask my name then ask me if I know a few other people. Never heard the names. Then they ask how long I lived here, if anyone else lives here, etc. Eventually, they realize I’m not the droids they’re looking for.
Another lady comes out of the darkness with paperwork and they start discussing it. Not sure what was going on but I suspect they were trying to serve warrants. They ask me a few more questions then they decide to leave. I’m sure they also ran my plates since they asked if that was my truck.
I’ll give them this, they sure are stealthy. I heard several cars drive off but I didn’t hear a single thing when they came to the house, except for nock on the door.
Now I have to try to get back to sleep.
Bill Richardson's Somewhat Humors Iowa TV Ad
New Mexico Govenor Bill Richardson, who is running for president, has a kinda humorus ad for people in Iowa.
New Mexico Scorpions Still Loosing Money
An Albuquerque Tribune article discusses how the Scorpions didn’t make enough money during their first season in Rio Rancho to cover costs. They didn’t make enough money when they were in Albuquerque, either.
I can certainly see why they would thing the grass will be greener here in Rio Rancho, really what did they have to loose? I’m still concerned, how long will they continue to loose money? What if Rio Rancho’s growth doesn’t happen as fast as it needs to? Real fans are already driving to Rio Rancho to watch the games, what else will be done to attract new fans?
I’m still surprised to hear people complain about the drive to the Arena. Unser Road did suck, but it’s mostly better now. Any major city with major league sports have much worse traffic problems than Rio Rancho. I don’t think people know how good they have it.
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