By Arthur Alpert
To its credit and to the advantage of its readers, the Albuquerque Journal has over the past year or so diversified its sources of national and international news.
It publishes wire copy now from the Washington Post, McClatchy, Bloomberg, Tribune and Marketwatch. Of course, Journal editors still use the services of the Associated Press [...]

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By Arthur Alpert
I’m so old I remember when the major political parties were very powerful. That was before multiple primaries, before TV, the Web and global enterprises out-muscling parties and governments both.
Parties still matter, of course, as conduits – more acted upon than acting. Nevertheless, the Albuquerque Journal insists on viewing the political world through [...]

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By Tracy Dingmann
The Journal published a letter today from a reader who made an excellent point about a recent story involving a former Albuquerque Public Schools official.
The official, former chief financial officer Dupuy Bateman, had been placed on paid administrative leave May 24 after APS Superintendent Winston Brooks announced he had “lost faith” in Bateman’s [...]

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