This Week's News & Opinion: transgender rights, criminal justice reform, Medicaid, “Breaking Bad”

D'asha Stephens

Adrien Lawyer performs with A Band Named Sue at a 2010 fundraiser for the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico.

News Profile: Transgender rights have been neglected, Adrien Lawyer says

Making Sausage: Criminal justice reform may still be in the cards for New Mexico

Ortiz y Pino: Medicaid needs overhaul, not amputation

Odds & Ends: Mayor’s ex-wife gets a birthday boulder; one plucky, popular parrot; a week on a flagpole; police search house for missing remote

Letters: Offending sex offenders; immigrants ruin America; Israeli apartheid; haiku gets lost in translation; if you don’t like “Breaking Bad,” change the channel