u/505omatic — reddlx

Santa Fe's alternative to sending cops and firetrucks to mental health calls is working. So why does the fire department union want to get rid of it?

What's going on with Santa Fe's alternative public safety programs? The Mobile Integrated Health Office (MIHO) and the Alternative Response Unit (ARU) are programs that are housed within the fire department, and are intended to provide alternative responses to people needing services like medical care, behavioral health care, housing assistance and addiction treatment. Although the programs have a lot of community support, many people within the fire department have been voicing their opposition to the program, claiming that it diverts resources from other emergency services they feel are more of a priority. Although city officials including the Mayor say that the program is not losing any funding or going away, conversations are being had about the future of the program.

If you want to weigh in, the Public Safety Committee meets Tuesday, May 19th at 4pm at City Hall. You can show up in person or contact your city councilors.

Additional footage provided by Little Globe and the Drug Policy Alliance.

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u/505omatic — 4 days ago

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Sam Bregman Interviewed by 505OMATIC

On May 13th 505OMATIC's Devon Ludlow sat down with gubernatorial candidate Sam Bregman to talk Blackstone, deadly police shootings, and his plan to battle the fentanyl crisis. Check it out and vote!

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u/505omatic — 8 days ago

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Deb Haaland interviewed by 505OMATIC

On May 7th 505OMATIC contributor Austin Fisher sat down with gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland to talk Blackstone, private equity, data centers, deadly police shootings, and a state-run public option for healthcare. Since recording we've successfully scheduled an interview with Sam Bregman on Wednesday.

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u/505omatic — 10 days ago

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On Monday, May 4th, 505OMATIC joined UFO researcher and What it Means to Be Human podcast host Dan Zetterström on a trip out to Old Horse Springs, NM, to look for the site of the 1947 San Agustin Plains crash. This is supposedly the site described at the beginning of American Cosmic, where Diana Pasulka and Garry Nolan are taken blindfolded by "Tyler D." and use a modified metal detector to pick up some exotic material.

The crash, sometimes referred to as The Gifting Field, allegedly happened two days before Roswell and reportedly involved scattered debris and bodies.

u/505omatic — 14 days ago

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In light of the city of Santa Fe bringing back speed cameras, here’s a throwback to when that older fella in a nightgown blasted the living heck out of an -unoccupied - speed van on Bishop’s Lodge Road. Ah memories...

..Dibs on "Noise Cameras" as a band name

u/505omatic — 21 days ago

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Hidden on a hill in the middle of Albuquerque sits a Norwegian villa built in 1903. It’s been a family home, a commune, a frat house, and since the 1970s, home to the Albuquerque Press Club. We took a tour with assistant manager Kim Schneider and Vice President Scott Stine to talk about the ghost of Clifford “Mrs. M” McCallum, the on-the-record / off-the-record bar rooms, and why local journalists still need a place to meet. We're teaming with APC for our next party on May 23rd, details soon!

u/505omatic — 23 days ago

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This International Workers Day, Friday May 1st, a coalition of organizations across the US are asking all students, workers, and business owners to do no work, no school, and no shopping as a collective action to "fight against the authoritarian billionaire agenda". u/jalexthetechnologist sat down with some local organizers from the New Mexico chapter of Organized Power In Numbers (OPIN) and Organizers in the Land of Enchantment (OLÉ) to talk about the need for solidarity, building towards a general strike, and the history of the worldwide labor movement.

u/505omatic — 23 days ago