The Day Of The Panda Bitter Lessons Spark City Politics Both the City Council and Mayor Martin Chavez learned bitter lessons last week. Which lesson turns out to be the more painful of [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jun 09, 2005 Read More
Youth Speaks Out, But Who'S Listening? If you haven't seen it yet, you really need to watch The Motorcycle Diaries, the brilliant movie (Spanish with English subtitles) about an [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jun 02, 2005 Read More
Dude, Where'S Your Candidate? Republicans Are Invisible In This Year'S Elections You have to feel for Col. Allen Weh, the state Republican Party Chairman. He's got almost everything you could possibly need for electoral [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ May 26, 2005 Read More
Another Economic Dead-End The president of El Salvador, Tony Saca, was in town last week, pumping hard for support for the Central American Free Trade Agreement [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ May 19, 2005 Read More
Focus On The ... Wackos Focus On The ... Wackos I missed the ad the first time I skimmed through the Sunday Journal, but a friend at church was so angered by it [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ May 05, 2005 Read More
A Quiet Revolution There is no escape! There really is no end in sight! I'm just guessing here, but I'm sure that during last week's tumultuous [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 28, 2005 Read More
What Makes Us Think We'Re A Culture Of Life? The Terry Schiavo tragedy just won't let go of my imagination. It is tempting to move on, to shift our focus, to look [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 14, 2005 Read More
The 2005 Legislative Session A Civics Lesson From The Front Row If you judge the results of a legislative session by the weight of legislation produced, the meager output of the 2005 60-day session [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 07, 2005 Read More
Voter Id Should Be Buried And Forgotten In its final hours before adjournment, the 2005 session of the New Mexico Legislature completed action on a comprehensive election reform measure and [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 31, 2005 Read More
An Honest Woman Hits A Nerve Whatever else one might say about the neocons and their allies on the right, the anti-abortion forces, the “shrink-guv'mint-down-to-drownin'-size” fanatics and the “Sun [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 17, 2005 Read More