This Silver Bullet Is A Dud The Absurdity Of Kendra’s Law To hear Mayor Chavez and his press claque describe it, you would think that our city’s newly enacted Kendra’s Law was a milestone [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Oct 05, 2006 Read More
Wilson Wobbles Patricia Madrid May Have A Fighting Chance At Beating Wilson At The Polls The biggest surprise so far in this year’s First Congressional District race between incumbent Heather Wilson and challenger Patricia Madrid has been the [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 28, 2006 Read More
Without A Home Looking For Ways To Help Albuquerque’s Homeless Population At two different neighborhood association meetings this past week, I heard choruses of frustration over problems created in those communities by the large [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 14, 2006 Read More
Mandating Mental Health Some powerful testimony was given during the day-long Town Hall meeting on Aug.31 concerning “Kendra’s Law.” It mostly came during the final two [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 07, 2006 Read More
Martineztown’s Big Flush The term frequently kicked around is “hundred-year flood,” but if you can remember more than three such inundations in your own lifetime, that’s [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Aug 31, 2006 Read More
A Great Stride Apd Chief Ray Schultz Finds Police Officer Guilty Of Racial Profiling Sometimes the most important news in a community doesn’t arrive with trumpets and a splashy press conference in front of television cameras. Sometimes [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Aug 24, 2006 Read More
In The Balance Weighing The Quality Of Life Tax To hear some voices on the subject, raising the county Gross Receipts Tax 3/16 of a cent for “quality of life” projects is [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Aug 10, 2006 Read More
Room For The Poor One-time presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey was fond of pointing out that the truest measure of a society’s success should be not how its [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Aug 03, 2006 Read More
The Race Card It is now apparently a given in American civic dialogue that racism no longer exists in America … if indeed it ever did.If [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jul 27, 2006 Read More
Fighting The Good Fight (Er, Not ) The Mayor Brawls With Aps While I don’t agree with him very often, I still have to admire the battling spirit and tireless energy our pugnacious mayor, Martin [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jul 20, 2006 Read More