…2/26-10: long live layers!

33º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…GAQ; real estate mogul accused of fraud, has not paid back creditors, plus people who have invested money in his business, totaling millions of dollars; the ABQ ID theft ring keeps getting bigger; special education substitute teacher accused of pulling a boy’s hooded sweater, causing bruises on the child’s neck; is projected NM revenue amounts for 2010 too optimistic?; how is the skull found in Farmington?; four ABQ schools fail in achievement;

comic book climb; we remain in Code Purple; even John thinks this state is weird; because of an accident on I-40 [which has yet to appear on local news stations], bus service was delayed, so I did not get home until 5:30P…which actually was earlier than I expected;

rain for Albany, Seattle, Dallas & San Fran; wet along the W Coast; the ‘Super Storm’ that will not go away; snow in Newark, NYC, the Pocono MTN, in Pittsburgh, Philly, Detroit, Cleveland and down to Richmond; hundreds of flights have been cancelled; 120 mph winds reported on Mt. Washington, NH; heavy rain for parts of New England; more power outages reported; temps from the 20s to the 70s;

teacher killed outside WA school; what was actually accomplished at yesterday’s health summit?; people want to buy INS across state lines; as of now, extension of unemployment benefits is up in the air; TN mother goes to school with a sword, after her child was involved in a spitting incident; the DOW ended the day slightly up; a hotel room in Beverly Hills for $175?; as different as [R] & [D]; NYC street vendors say they need more time to ‘pee’; did a breast implant save a woman from a bullet?; NY GOV will not seek re-election; student unrest in a ‘mostly white’ CA UNIV; ‘Harry Potter’ actor speaks out for gay suicide prevention; White House social SECY resigned, after several uninvited guests have entered that structure over the last few months; salmonella fears spread into more Trader Joe’s granola bars;

Taliban attacks in Kabul; three people are dead after an ocean liner slams into an Egyptian port; oil is $78.72 a barrel; US leads in Olympic medals, but ties with Germany & Russia for gold honors; an iceberg broke off, in an area of Antarctica where scientists believed an event would not occur…and not due to global warming; several people were reported injured but no serious damage after a 7.3 quake shook S Japan, the tremor itself was centered off the coast of Okinawa; gold is $1,118.90 an ounce;