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Please, Don’t Feed the Pigeons!
I reside in the Ventana Ranch community in Albuquerque, and there is a serious problem here with an overpopulation of pigeons who leave droppings everywhere. They live on the houses;... Read more »
Join Battle Against Sexual Violence
In 2009, President Obama designated April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This was significant because awareness months serve not only to highlight different issues that impact our society, but they... Read more »
Obama Silent on Bahrain Oppression
Three days after Hosni Mubarak resigned as the long-standing dictator in Egypt, people in the small Gulf state of Bahrain took to the streets, marching to their version of Tahrir,... Read more »
Ex-Marine Takes on Assignment of Shaping Up Schools
WASHINGTON — During 25 years in the Marine Corps, including flying helicopters in Vietnam, Rep. John Kline, a Minnesota Republican, developed the skill of maintaining small-unit cohesion. He will need... Read more »
APD Shooting Divides Opinion
It is with great sadness that I write in response to your lead story of Saturday’s Journal, “Police Union Lashes Out Over Mayor’s Proposal.” I was dumbfounded as I read... Read more »
Officers Were Acting in Self-Defense
This letter is in response to the headline “Family: APD 1,000 Times Negligent.” If it was possible, I would volunteer to serve on the jury that will hear the case... Read more »
NMDOT, Universities Must Deliver Answers
Taxpayers have been on a painfully long road trip since 2008, the destination being fiscal accountability for millions in highway research dollars. At the wheel? The New Mexico Department of... Read more »
NMSO’s Last Sad Notes Don’t Have To Be Finale
No Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, Mother’s Day Concert at the Rio Grande Zoo or Symphony Under the Stars: Stars, Stripes & the 1812 Overture. The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra has filed for... Read more »
Rules Strangle Small Business
In a fiscal environment dominated by staggering national debt and almost unprecedented deficits, the Obama administration’s recent announcement that it is undertaking a “retrospective review” of federal regulations (“Reviewing U.S.... Read more »
Police Union Taking Aim at Wrong Targets
If the mission of the Albuquerque Police Officers Association is to protect its members while presenting them in the best light, APOA is failing its officers and the public they... Read more »
Latina Activist Takes Fight to GOP
SAN DIEGO — In these times, it’s not easy being a Hispanic Republican. Take it from DeeDee Garcia Blase of Scottsdale, Ariz. The 39-year-old Mexican-American political activist and Air Force... Read more »
Ruling Class Imperils Its Interests
WASHINGTON — The American ruling class is failing us — and itself. At other moments in our history, the informal networks of the wealthy and powerful who often wield at... Read more »
