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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Speak Up!
REGARDING THE editorial, "... the LFC learned there was still no mechanism for linking the three tiers to improved student performance." Nor should there be as there are too many variables out the teachers' control, such as attendance, motivation, apathy, drug use, pregnancy, poor study skills, unhealthy home life and sleep deprivation, to name a few. — C.B.
PNM WANTS more time to study implementing pollution controls costing almost $1 billion at the San Juan power plant. Rather than investing money in cleaning emissions from a fossil fuel power plant that contributes to global warming, build wind farms. Pollution and deaths resulting from activities due to mining coal would be eliminated. — A.P.
GOODBYE incandescent bulbs — the federal government takes away yet another freedom to choose. We now will wake up to blueish moon glow instead of yellowish sunshine. Why didn't they take away our choice to buy gas-guzzling cars or make us eat chicken instead of beef? — K.P.H.
IT'S HARD to decide who is the biggest pain, if not menace: corrupt politicians or the ACLU? What are they going to sue New Mexico ICE about next — illegal aliens not having large enough TV sets or not having all-you-can-eat seafood buffets? — K.K.
CNM IS FACED with a budget cut of somewhere about 17 percent. How much of this would be necessary if it weren't frivolous expenditures like a large flat-screen TV playing MSNBC all day in the dean's reception room at CNM's main campus? Administrators have a spend attitude. Unfortunately, it's not always on necessary items. — L.L.
THERE HAS BEEN a lot of "talk" about cutting government spending. I never hear anything about stopping let alone decreasing foreign aid. Why should the U.S. citizen suffer when we continue sending money abroad? The U.S. has to stop trying to be the panacea for the world. We actually wind up creating more problems then we solve. — G.S.
YOU WERE young, female and stopped at the ATM on the corner of Carlisle and Menaul. It was a few minutes after 1 p.m. Friday. You casually got back in your car and tossed a piece of paper out the window before driving off. Shame for not respecting where you live. — C.E.
SO CONGRESS is now going to be civil and work together to represent the interests of its constituents beginning with the mixed seating during the president's State of the Union address. Sounds as if they just rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic to me. — M.M.F.
I'D LIKE to see the Journal institute a requirement that New Mexico guest columnists defending their tax-funded programs against cuts offer their suggestions as to where to raise the money to make up for those cuts. It happens very rarely. — C.T.
I GET SO sick and tired of seeing the words "Made in China" on nearly everything I buy. I would much prefer to buy things made in the United States by American workers, but I can't find any. Why are we supporting a ruthless dictatorship that has murdered over 64 million of its own people? — D.S.
GUN CONTROL, gun control, gun control! — L.H.
I WILL NO longer take part in the city's pathetic attempt at recycling. Sometimes my recyclables aren't picked up at all, and yesterday morning I left my old newspapers in bags and boxed — but when I came home, some of it was scattered all over the street. Are the people in charge of pick up too good to pick up paper if it fell out of the box? — L.R.
EMPLOYEES OF Sandia, Los Alamos and other national laboratories got our "stimulus package" the week before Christmas. But instead of cash we can pump into the economy, our pay is frozen for two years. — D.B.
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