Insight New Mexico - Jerry Ortiz y Pino’s Legislature Analysis

March 06, 2014

By V.B. Price

State Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino gives us his perspective on the highs and lows of this year's legislature, why not much got done, constitutional amendments, early childhood stall, marijuana legalization effort, Omaree's law, gubernatorial candidates and more.

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V.B. Price

V.B. Price is editor and co-founder of New Mexico Mercury. He is the former editor of Century Magazine and New Mexico Magazine, former city editor of the New Mexico Independent, and long-time columnist for the late Albuquerque Tribune. His latest book is The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He retired as the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at UNM Press in 2010. He has taught in the UNM Honors Program since l986.