Immigration? Who Cares? Why It May Not Be Such A Big Issue After All When KKOB and ABC radio announced Albuquerque would be the site for a national town hall on one of the hottest of hot [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Nov 15, 2007 Read More
Don't Hire The Patsy Aps' Search For A New Superintendent I wasn’t able to attend the public meetings conducted by the search committee for a new APS superintendent. The committee’s purpose was to [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Nov 01, 2007 Read More
I Sure Miss The Old Loyal Opposition On NPR a few days ago, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was quoted saying something that hit me with one of those [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Oct 18, 2007 Read More
Operation Stonegarden Is A Disaster Recent events in southern New Mexico connected to the Bush Administration’s peculiarly-named “Operation Stonegarden” cry out for much closer analysis in the press [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Oct 04, 2007 Read More
The Candy Factory Sometimes there’s just too much information floating around to comfortably digest. In recent days I’ve felt a bit like a diabetic in a [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 20, 2007 Read More
General Petraeus' Anticlimax General Petraeus' Anticlimax Well, it’s September already. Soon we’ll have General David Petraeus’ report on progress in Iraq to endlessly analyze, microscopically dissect and carefully parse [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Sep 06, 2007 Read More
“Sharon” Homelessness Won’t Fade Away Until We Look It In The Face Albuquerque (and probably most of the country as well) seems of two minds when it comes to homelessness. I don’t mean there are [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Aug 23, 2007 Read More
Where Have All The Workers Gone? My excitement about reaching the age at which one qualifies for Social Security benefits has been tempered drastically by a couple of demographic [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Aug 09, 2007 Read More
The War On Health Care Why Gov. Richardson Needs To Switch Sides The Iraq Occupation’s casualties are coming home. And besides the physical and emotional injuries brought back by the troops from their deployment, the [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jul 26, 2007 Read More
The Fear Of The People Who's Scared: Us Or Them? When I watched Michael Moore’s new film on health care in the United States, SiCKO , one comment quoted twice in the movie [...] Jerry Ortiz y Pino \ Jul 12, 2007 Read More