Why It's Good To Be "Single" And Why A “Single Payer” Health Care Option Is Ignored The cartoon penned by “Toles” dated from 1994. Yet its relevance even today remains such that John McDonough, veteran health care reformer and [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 29, 2007 Read More
Ten Days? Ha! Why 60 Days Isn't Enough After the New Mexico Legislature had been in session for a couple of weeks this year, the Albuquerque Tribune ran an editorial suggesting [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 22, 2007 Read More
The Firing Of Ritchie Mckay A Loss For The Lobos I knew Ritchie McKay’s father, Joe, when I was a UNM undergrad living in the Mesa Vista dormitory back in the early ’60s. [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 01, 2007 Read More
A Couple Of Uppity Texas Women What We Learned From Molly Ivins And Anna Nicole Smith All right, class, listen up. Today, in place of our scheduled lecture on American culture at the start of the 21 st century, [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 22, 2007 Read More
Adrift In A Sea Of Life Preservers What Will It Take To Save Aps? Ideas for how to save the Albuquerque Public School system are flying around the Legislature like aspen leaves on a blustery October afternoon. [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 08, 2007 Read More
To Mary, From Our Hearts La Guadalupana At Offcenter Last week I attended the opening of a wonderful art show, one every Albuquerquean should find the time to visit during the next [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 01, 2007 Read More
Lock ’Em Up? Why We Should Exercise Common Sense In Our Jail System I recently toured the still almost-new Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC). It was opened about three years ago and this year saw a [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 25, 2007 Read More
Rubber Ducky How Plastic Is Contaminating Our World The single scariest thing I’ve read all year was the cover article in the January 2007 issue of Harper’s , "Moby Duck," by [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 18, 2007 Read More
Our City's Homeless Kids ... ... And What We Should Do To Help Them This year we visited relatives in Chile during the Christmas season. On New Year’s Eve we were in the port city of Valparaiso [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 11, 2007 Read More
New Year's Predictions If I Win, I'll Buy You A Slurpee I used to be amazed by Jeane Dixon and other famous prognosticators who annually predict events that will transpire months from now. Then [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 28, 2006 Read More