Twisting The Debate The Most Telling Aspect Of The Debate Over Albuquerque'S Proposed Living Wage Ordinance, Up For Referendum Early Next Month, Is How Little Honest Public Debate Is Actually Taking Place A proposal to increase the minimum wage in Albuquerque to $7.50 per hour and the hourly wages of tipped employees to $4.50 will [...] Joseph Crumb \ Sep 22, 2005 Read More
Spin This A Brief Primer On The Art Of The Fallacy It was in Ancient Greece during the fifth century BC that rhetoric—the art of public speaking—began to be taught in the ancient cities [...] Joseph Crumb \ Sep 22, 2005 Read More
Point Of Crisis According To New Mexico Health Care Advocates, Cuts In Medicaid Funding Not Only Place The Poor, The Young, The Elderly And The Disabled At Enormous Risk—They'Re Also Fiscally Irresponsible. If you can judge the nobility and worth of a society by the way it treats its most vulnerable citizens, then New Mexico, [...] Joseph Crumb \ Mar 17, 2005 Read More
Coming Of Age Some Albuquerque Residents Say The Mixed Waste Landfill Is A Threat To Our Very Existence. But Officials At Sandia National Labs Contend It'S Better To Leave Bad Enough Alone. Suppose there were a rattlesnake in your driveway. What would you do? You'd probably want to keep an eye on it. You might [...] Joseph Crumb \ Sep 23, 2004 Read More