Our Neglected Southern Colony Ten days after our national election, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, my wife and I went to El Salvador. We traveled separately, of [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 02, 2004 Read More
Another Democrat Falls Away Like some gawker slowing down to linger over a roadside disaster scene or a NASCAR junkie unable to tear himself away from video [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Nov 18, 2004 Read More
A Question Of Moral Values How frightening is it that theologians, not political scientists, offer the best insights to help us understand what the heck happened at the [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Nov 11, 2004 Read More
A Race To The Bottom In Mental Health Care A few weeks ago I wrote about how foolish a policy it is for a state to funnel its public mental health funds [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Nov 04, 2004 Read More
Mute Those Stupid Tv Ads! The Debates Make All The Difference The week before last Thursday night's first of the 2004 presidential debates we heard a lot about the limitations of this tightly packaged [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Oct 07, 2004 Read More
Early Childhood Needs Public Scrutiny Governor'S Plan Should Be Viewed As A First Step In A Long Journey Behind the scenes, far from the public's view, a battle is being waged with great consequences over early childhood education in New Mexico. [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 30, 2004 Read More
Mushroom Nation Get Out Of The Dark And Go Vote! There's a tired old joke that's been circulating through this country's office cubicles for decades, usually accompanied by a rough sketch of a [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 23, 2004 Read More
America Wants Health Care The Tidal Wave Of Anxiety Politicians Don'T Want To Talk About Did you notice the results of the latest polling published in the morning daily? No, not the headline-grabbing “which candidate's ahead if the [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 16, 2004 Read More
The Unwinnable War In A Rare, Unscripted Moment, Bush Was Right Demonstrating yet again how dangerous it is for him to venture into public unaided by a teleprompter, President Bush managed to provide some [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 09, 2004 Read More
Filling The Trough For Our Corporate Piggies Privatizing The State'S Behavioral Health Services Another Bad Idea After putting it at the bottom of my stack of books to read for over a year, I recently began reading Edmund Morris' [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 02, 2004 Read More