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” [...]

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By Tracy Dingmann So many times we at ABQ Journal Watch have written about the particularly good work done by various individual reporters at the Journal. It’s time to do it again today. Given the topic, the July 23 UpFront column “Thieves Hit Kid’s Graves,” by Joline Gutierrez Krueger could have been rendered in overwrought [...]

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By Tracy Dingmann There was some interesting pushback in the paper today. It came from Albuquerque Public Schools superintendent Winston Brooks, who is lucky enough to have a regular column in the paper. I say lucky because in his July 13 column, Brooks got the opportunity to directly address some pretty pointed criticism that came [...]

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By Tracy Dingmann Former city councilor and county commissioner Steve Gallegos made the Journal this week for a bizarre protest on Civic Plaza in which he burned copies of the paper. Gallegos said he was angry about the Journal’s news stories and editorials over the past month that he felt did not properly represent the [...]

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