Oops!

One of Hizzoners' pet projects, since he rode his four-vote landslide into office, has been to make certain that no one confuses our village with our neighbor to the south. And given the 'querquesque plethora of auto-parts stores, vacant buildings, re-born head shops and check-cashing joints here in good old LR, one could be forgiven for not realizing that they were in fact in another "municpality".

But instead of doing the hard work necessary to make LR a truly unique place, Larry has gone mainly for ultimately trivial actions. Like badgering everyone to change their addresses from "Albuquerque" to "Los Ranchos" (even though the village does not have its own post office or zip, and therefore all mail has been delivered, since the village's inception in 1958, with "Albuquerque" listed as the city). He even went so far as to chide and downright threaten LR businesses for their reluctance to re-print business cards, checks and phone book entries. Of course, it was just too bad if the change lost the businesses customers or cost them for printing and the like. Now all the developers know that anything goes, as long as it says "Los Ranchos" somewhere on the sign.

So imagine El Picador's surprise to see an official, government-issued sign telling us to "Slow down, ALBUQUERQUE" smack-dab in the heart of Los Ranchos (on Bledsoe, just west of 4th, to be exact). And posted on an official traffic sign, the placing and maintenance of which is specifically a responsibility of the Los Ranchos village government, no less!