My Stint In The Movies An urgent call from a friend on my voice mail set off alarm bells. “Jerry! I just went past your house and there [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 09, 2006 Read More
Fizzling Out Set aside for the moment your feelings about the wars—both the one against Terror and the one in Iraq. No matter with which [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 02, 2006 Read More
Spaceport Or Spacepork It was almost irresistible as a target for smart-aleck punditry. “The New Mexico Regional Spaceport” just sounds like some sort of setup for [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 26, 2006 Read More
The Orchestra In The Meadow Virtually identical photos graced the front pages of both Albuquerque dailies one day last week. In each, members of a middle school student [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 19, 2006 Read More
Bad Math And Big Jails There are times when numbers just don't add up. Or rather, they add up, but the answer is all wrong. One of those [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 12, 2006 Read More
Magic With Magnets When I was a kid, I read the funnies in the Sunday papers with a devotion that bordered on the religious. I poured [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 05, 2006 Read More
New Year'S Revolutions My track record with keeping New Year's resolutions has been decidedly lame in recent years—viz., my vocabulary continues to demonstrate a propensity for [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 29, 2005 Read More
Cutting And Running I swear, sometimes the Republicans are just too clever for their own good. Karl Rove, the brain behind the Bush White House, has [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 22, 2005 Read More
Victimless Crimes Without Proper Attention, Prostitution Could Be Coming To Your Neighborhood How big a problem does Albuquerque have with prostitution? I hadn't given much thought to that subject … until I met Bill Cobb [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 15, 2005 Read More
The People'S Platform After not quite one year in the State Legislature, one of the most important lessons I've learned is that we have, in our [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 08, 2005 Read More