Dump The Wmds The City Council Will Soon Debate Albuquerque'S Nuclear Weapons You can bet that the pamphlets and the website information circulated by the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce to prospective residents or business people [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 01, 2005 Read More
We Can'T Just Throw Away The Key Pathetic Fear-Mongering In Our Local Media It was an amazing example of television broadcasting creating … or better, fabricating … a story out of thin air. Unfortunately, for all [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Nov 24, 2005 Read More
How To Make Crusades Obsolete Two New Books Give An Alternative To War Two books came across my desk recently, both of which argue convincingly that waging war over religious differences is not inevitable. Apparently, we [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Nov 10, 2005 Read More
Bad Law Just Got Worse Bush'S New Medicare Bill Could Lead To Further Cutbacks For The Poor It doesn't seem possible, but the Bush Administration has just managed to mess up what was just about the only positive aspect of [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Oct 27, 2005 Read More
Cashing Out The Windfall The Special Session Wraps Up With A Tidy Sum Slated For New Mexico'S Pockets There was an aura of unreality to the entire special session of the Legislature which concluded last week. Pulling legislators back to Santa [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Oct 20, 2005 Read More
Not So Sweet The State'S Environmental Improvement Board Will Hold Hearings On The Dangers Posed By A Household Sweetener Stephen Fox can be a real pest. The Santa Fe gallery owner is a familiar presence in legislative hallways, at public hearings of [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Oct 13, 2005 Read More
Don'T Ask, Don'T Tell ... And Don'T Pray Don'T Ask, Don'T Tell ... And Don'T Pray As I get older, I find I am spending almost as much time reading the obituaries in the morning newspaper as I am [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Oct 06, 2005 Read More
The Quiet Election Ten days before the polls close on the City of Albuquerque's 2005 election season, an eerie quiet cloaks the campaign. By the time [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 29, 2005 Read More
Now That Takes Real Cajones A few years ago, the city was in big time financial trouble. It had experienced several consecutive years of flat revenue growth (much [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 15, 2005 Read More
Which Kind Of Looting Is Ok? The horror, devastation and misery of Hurricane Katrina cannot be escaped. My wife and I sit riveted in front of the television screen [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 08, 2005 Read More