Manliness At City Hall The Minimum Wage, Jail And Public Education There's a new book out in defense of manliness. It's got the commentators all atwitter with its premise, which is that, as a [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 20, 2006 Read More
“Silver Bullets” Drunk Driving And Mental Illness Need Better Solutions The hearts of our local policymakers must brim over with optimism. I can think of no other possible explanation for why they’re falling [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 13, 2006 Read More
And Counting Our fascination with counting bodies as a measure of how the war is going in Iraq is macabre. Worse, it is a false [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 06, 2006 Read More
And Counting Our fascination with counting bodies as a measure of how the war is going in Iraq is macabre. Worse, it is a false [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 30, 2006 Read More
“Wage Peace, Question Violence” The Unm Peace Fair Helps Us Ponder The “Absence Of War” An announcement that crossed my desk about the upcoming Second Annual UNM Peace Fair set me to thinking again about this very misunderstood [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 23, 2006 Read More
Looking To The Left A New Book Offers A Fresh Political Perspective I just read Rabbi Michael Lerner's book, The Left Hand of God, and it has me very excited about his upcoming appearance in [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 16, 2006 Read More
A Bad Case Of Sensationalism A Recent Channel 13 “Investigative” Report Circulates Faulty Information I missed KRQE Channel 13's recent “investigative” report on so-called unqualified persons being hired to state jobs by Gov. Bill Richardson, but around [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 09, 2006 Read More
Domenici'S Wish A New Bill From Our Senior Senator Tackles Immigration Reform From the vacuum created by the Bush administration's failure to put forward any kind of immigration reform initiative, a remarkable piece of legislation [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 02, 2006 Read More
Sinking Out Of Sight Why The Tax Relief Bill Failed With tax money from oil and gas production pouring into the State of New Mexico's coffers at an unprecedented rate, you might think [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 23, 2006 Read More
Aspartame Buys Time Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to the corrosive influence of money on our public policy. I'm not just talking about the [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 16, 2006 Read More