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Chuck Wellborn

Just a few observations and pithy comments, from someone who’s been
around a long time, and thinks that means he has something useful to say

He practiced corporate law in Albuquerque for many years, then in 1995 went to UNM to start STC.UNM, its technology transfer arm. Following that stint, he managed economic development programs for the McCune Charitable Foundation for ten years.

Chuck Wellborn was raised in Albuquerque, graduated from UNM and the UNM School of Law. He then went on to obtain an LL.M degree from New York University. As a corporate lawyer, he primarily handled business transactions, including venture capital financings.

After thirty years, he left the Modrall Sperling law firm in Albuquerque to become the founding President of STC.UNM. He left that position after five years and joined the McCune Charitable Foundation for ten years. He is now retired but continues to serve on community boards.

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Catholic Church
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New Mexico
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Pope Francis
Spirituality
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Technology
Vatican II

Comcast is the AT&T of the 70s

By Chuck Wellborn | May 5, 2015

In April, we moved out of our longtime residence to a condo at Park Plaza in downtown Albuquerque. Because the remodeling of our unit wasn’t to be done until late in April, we moved temporarily to a...

More Gambling, More Problem Gamblers

By Chuck Wellborn | March 13, 2015

It’s hard to see why it makes any sense to approve the new Navajo gambling compact, especially when you consider that all the other gaming tribes are able to have the same agreement and all of them...

How Violent is Albuquerque?

By Chuck Wellborn | September 29, 2014

In an opinion piece in the New York Times a few weeks back, the writer said he was glad to be leaving Albuquerque because it was a “land of violence” where the rate of violent crime was...

The Destruction of a Parish: Now What?

By Chuck Wellborn | September 5, 2014

PART I. THE TAKEOVER AND THE AFTERMATH A former Aquinas Newman Center parishioner wanted to know if other former ANC parishioners were interested in celebrating Mass together at the Norbertine Community’s Abbey on South Coors. Knowing the...

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The Aquinas Newman Center and the Traditionalists

By Chuck Wellborn | July 4, 2014

From what I saw and what others are saying, it was quite an operation at the Aquinas Newman Center this week when the former Dominican chapel, as it had evolved over 64 years, was re-made into a...

The End is Near

By Chuck Wellborn | July 3, 2014

The final Masses under the Dominican Order at the Aquinas Newman Center were held last Saturday and Sunday, June 28 and 29. At each Mass, Fathers Dan Davis and Rich Litzau, the only Dominicans still in residence...

Farewell To The Aquinas Newman Center As We Know It

By Chuck Wellborn | June 27, 2014

Try as I might, I’m having a hard time developing enough Christian goodness to be forgiving or even nice about the forthcoming changes at Newman which include running off the Dominicans who staffed the parish for over...

A Catholic Spring

By Chuck Wellborn | March 25, 2014

A Catholic Spring Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Is it silly to group these together? A bit, if only because one is not Arab. Overblown? Maybe. Frivolous? Sort of. Ridiculous? Not...

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Taxes and Economic Development in NM

By Chuck Wellborn | February 25, 2014

Things are not good in the New Mexico economy. The job situation is desperate and getting worse. Worse, ten years of reduced state tax revenues from tax cuts is limiting the state’s ability to respond in a...

The Proposed Navajo Gaming Pact

By Chuck Wellborn | February 16, 2014

The three gaming casinos on the Navajo Reservation have created badly-needed jobs on the reservation. But a proposed gaming compact negotiated by the Governor’s office extending and expanding gaming on the Navajo reservation should not be approved...

A Pope To Love

By Chuck Wellborn | February 3, 2014

It’s all his fault that I made a New Year’s resolution to resume blogging after months of chasing far less admirable rainbows, like trying to shoot my age in golf (never got that close) and becoming a...

Thoughts on Economic Development

By Chuck Wellborn | February 13, 2013

Thoughts on Economic Development The economic situation in New Mexico is astonishingly bad. There’s not a lot of vigor to the proposed legislative solutions but it’s also true that state revenues are so diminished, options are limited....