Voyage To Myra's Head Find A Pulse In Our Public Schools Before Looking For One On Mars Last fall, New Mexicans approved two constitutional amendments dealing with education. One provided millions of dollars for educational reform. The other revamped the [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 01, 2004 Read More
Nation Building Haiti'S Sad Tutorial On Democracy It is too bad that our actions speak louder than our words. If that were not so, our treatment of other countries would [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 25, 2004 Read More
The War Is The Economy, Stupid! In recent weeks, the Albuquerque Journal's young Latino conservative columnist (Ruben Navarette), its young, preppy, conservative columnist (Rich Lowery), and at least two [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 11, 2004 Read More
Apd Report Isn'T Pretty Racial Profiling At The Heart Of The Matter Not many years ago Albuquerque's cops had a reputation rivaling Los Angeles' for biased, prejudiced treatment of minorities. In that unenlightened, pre-Citizen Police [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 04, 2004 Read More
Heartbreak Of Media Illiteracy Heather Wilson'S Bizarre Outburst Misses The Point I keep hearing about “media literacy” and find I'm intrigued by the concept. I heard a presentation on it by an Albuquerque Academy [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 19, 2004 Read More
Media Coughs Up Medicare Ball Local Coverage Ignores Elderly Outrage I'm told that very few (if any) of the congressmen and women who voted on it had even read the full 681 densely [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 12, 2004 Read More
Daniels Fund Closes Down New Mexico Family'S Ties Severed They never knew what hit ’em. In a swift move orchestrated by former Colorado U.S. Senator Hank Brown, the billion-dollar charitable foundation created [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 05, 2004 Read More
Focus On The City Budget Honeymoon Could Sour Over Public Safety Tax Money The new city council's honeymoon with the Chavez administration has been a refreshing period of municipal calm and domestic tranquility, a mood starkly [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 29, 2004 Read More
Health Care Still A Hot Issue Forget About Market-Driven Solutions Concern about health care lately has mostly focused on the Richardson administration's proposals for slowing the growth of the Medicaid portion of the [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 22, 2004 Read More
Working Poor Can Benefit From Tax Credits Don'T Get Suckered When You Can Use Free Tax Assistance Program Strange that one of the simplest, most effective and painless ways of reducing poverty in this country would have been both developed under [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 15, 2004 Read More