For returning veteran, war is neither just, good or innevitable
Scott Albright is not your ordinary ex-Independent reporter, ex-Marine, Iraqi war veteran, political science graduate, China specialist, PTSD sufferer and conqueror, freelance journalist, New Mexican and Hawaiian, a husband and a father expecting his third child.
He, of course, is all those things. But what is most interesting about Scott is that he has learned to describe his experiences in newspaper articles, blogs, a website and now a book that are at once coolly analytical and warmly empathetic...
In defense of Hannah
New Mexico Education Secretary designate Hannah Skandera is the only education secretary in our state’s history not to be confirmed by the state legislature.
Skandera created a grading system for public schools that will be used to evaluate teacher performance. The scheme is so complex and whimsical that no one can follow it.
No Hanford waste at WIPP
If the DOE and the state of New Mexico collude to allow 3.2 million gallons of high level nuclear waste from Hanford, Washington to be stored at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) near Carlsbad, it would be a blatant and disgusting betrayal of public trust...
Vetoing the minimum wage hike
There’s no other word for it. It’s disgusting --the rancid logic of “job creation” that prides itself in getting desperate people to work for low wages they cannot live on, forcing them to often hold down two slave-wage jobs just to make ends meet. It’s class warfare at its worst – the moneyed against the working poor.
Round ’em up, head ’em out
New Mexico roundup reminds state of the old Southwest
It’s the end of the year and time to think about paying our taxes. Albuquerque’s Mayor Richard Berry and his city government cohorts are entering citizens’ homes this New Year to drive them out and over to Civic Plaza where they will be gathered for the First Annual New Mexico Taxpayer’s Roundup.
Shut down of the Chronicle a disaster for CNM
The sudden shut down of the Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) student newspaper, the Chronicle, is an educational disaster for CNM. An outright act of censorship, the closure of the paper makes CNM seem like a bush league school. And, of course, it is not.
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Ask The Bugman: Dealing with ants
Ants are the most common household pests in the country. They create more calls to pest control companies than most other pests combined. For being so noticeable and so persistent in your homes, they are not readily recognized beyond five generic group names: sugar ants, grease ants, piss ants, red ants and black ants. One supervisior with a very large pest control company narrowed it down to two groups; inside ants and outside ants. This is a little bit simplistic.