…12/21-09: there is a difference between night & day

28º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Duke City home construction on the rise; more taxes on cigarettes & gas to balance the NM budget?; historic Bernalillo structure burned down; I-40 closed near the Continental Divide, due to a HAZMAT situation; job hunter who stood on a Duke City street corner has two interviews; the Tribal Collaboration Communication Act has been passed; tank carrying propane spilled its contents on the highway after a car went under the truck, snapping its nozzle; more electric power to Rio Rancho, thanks to new transformer; illegal cockfighting ring broken up in the S Valley?; fake Native American jewelry being sold, or original artist’s name has been removed;

$4.5 million: total salary paid to UNM Vice Presidents; no weekend PICU Admits; working on the McLoughlin project; nearly have everything up-to-date; very busy weekend;

snow for Cleveland, Rapid City, Twin Cities, Des Moines & Buffalo; twenty inches of snow fell in Chesapeake, VA; very cold in New England; more Midwest flurries; days of recovery; most snow seen in DC during December in over 70 years; the Dakotas could receive another 3 – 5 inches of snow; a snow day for DC & FED workers; temps from the 10s to the 70s;

busiest shipping day for UPS; people will be flying without fees, but will travelers be home for the holidays; many cities have closed schools today; the compromised health bill; two boats collided in San Diego harbor, killing at least one person; online shopping has remained strong; ‘Secret Santas’ spread joy around the US; Cape Cod residents clean the snow off roads to allow an ambulance access to their neighborhood; three hour limit for passengers having to wait on the tarmac?; BOLO: ‘be on the lookout’; nation’s best hackers were being tested to ‘beat the system’; ‘the other husband’; Mother Nature vs. Old Man Winter; luxury item holiday sales are down; ABC World News with Diane Sawyer; the ‘cheap deal’ of health care reform may not go into effect until 2014, people will be able to buy INS, but will have to buy it from another company; another child, this time in NJ, was shot & killed by an illegally owned gun; Whole Food stores recalling hazelnuts, which may be contaminated with salmonella; the E Coast snowstorm has resulted in fewer car rentals available;how to save the Saab; Chunnel service still suspended; Philippine volcano keeps erupting, alert raised to Category 4: only days before eruption; what are the true meanings of nursery rhymes?; gold is $1,106.50 an ounce; oil is $74.25 per barrel; Mexico City will allow same–sex marriages, the first Latin American metropolis to do so; has Iran created a key component of a nuclear bomb?;