What Are We Paying For? In recent weeks I have been reminded over and over that what is usually billed as our “health care crisis” has a lot [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ May 01, 2008 Read More
The Sane Rev. Wright Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency seems to have weathered the controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons. A hailstorm of criticism from [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Apr 10, 2008 Read More
Terrorism Wins The War The decision by Congress a couple weeks ago not to override President Bush’s veto of the bill outlawing waterboarding by our government and [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 27, 2008 Read More
Nuclear Hair Of The Dog New Mexico’s elected leaders have begun to sound ominously like the drunk asking for just a little “hair of the dog” to get [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Mar 06, 2008 Read More
Selling Health Care Reform Gov. Richardson is upset the Legislature didn’t pass his proposal for health care reform and is threatening to call it back into Special [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
Calling Obama I am writing this column several days before the 22 states holding Democratic primaries (New Mexico among them) will have made their decisions [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Feb 07, 2008 Read More
Get Smarter How Not To Be Duped Into Phony Health Care Reform Driving through downtown Albuquerque last weekend, many of us were startled to see scenes of near-total devastation. Entire blocks of our city streets [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 24, 2008 Read More
Where’s The Finish Line? What To Look For In This Year's Legislative Session On Tuesday, Jan. 15, the New Mexico Legislature will convene for this year’s 30-day session. These “short” sessions in even-numbered years were originally [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jan 10, 2008 Read More
Gender Politics Why More Women In New Mexico Need To Enter Government It’s starting to look like the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign may not be grinding its way to inevitable victory after all. Her once [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Dec 27, 2007 Read More
Worshipping Baal The North Golf Course Is Safe ... For Now The news out of the UNM president’s office last week was good. In the face of the community’s vocal opposition to the scheme, [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Nov 29, 2007 Read More