Albuquerque Couple Fights for Municipal Job Opportunities

Gatekeepers of the Pit: Mike and Yolanda Sanchez fighting to get back to work

If Mike and Yolanda Sanchez get their wish, they’ll be standing in the snow in a dark parking lot together some night this winter. There’s a chunk of asphalt on the south side of Albuquerque with their name on it. For the better part of three decades, it has been their happy place — where the subculture surrounding University of New Mexico Lobo sports created a family they never knew was ...