SPEAKUP! !?!
WANT A PREVIEW of Central under Albuquerque Rapid Transit? Zuni (Road) was just reduced from four lanes to two. It took me three light changes each to get through San Mateo, San Pedro and Louisiana! — O.K.
GREAT TO SEE — and try out — the newly restriped Zuni Road. As someone who drives it regularly, the lower speed limit, added bike lanes and decreased automobile lanes make it more pleasant and less stressful. As someone who used to bike it regularly, ditto! — A.J.B.
I SERIOUSLY DOUBT the reason for no In-N-Out Burger here in Albuquerque is due to population. Fresno, Calif., has four; Clovis — next door to Fresno — has one; Lodi has one; Stockton has one; and Davis has one. All are smaller than Albuquerque and not in population hubs. Lobbyists keeping ’em out? — E.D.R.
RE: FIREARM/DRUG crackdown targets 104 suspects. Good job by law enforcement. Too bad the perps will go to lawyers now who’ll just let ’em back out onto the streets. — S.A.G.
ANYONE WHO THINKS that sadistic mistreatment of prisoners at the Metropolitan Detention Center is rare is sadly mistaken. — K.C.
I HOPE THEY keep the pressure on UNM to make its campus safe from sexual assault of students and staff! — G.M.
THE PUBLIC Regulation Commission should follow (PRC hearing officer Carolyn) Glick’s recommendation! She hit the nail on the head. Perhaps this will make PNM realize it cannot charge us for bad management decisions. — S.B.
IF YOU ARE against abortion, don’t have one. — B.F.
ANYONE INTERESTED in World War II history owes it to themselves to read Ernie Pyle. — J.T.
IF DEMOCRATS AND Republicans can shut out independents during primary voting, then property owners should be the only ones allowed to vote on mill levy bonds! — R.D.
IT’S ENCOURAGING to see the effort of people living in Questa to make such efforts to revitalize it. With its history, I expect most folks there are Catholic and the church will be a very important anchor. They have put lots of work into its restoration and brought back a beautiful building. — T.B.
ONCE AGAIN, the opinion section is full of letters from educators and the union head complaining about testing and evaluating educational success. It begs the question, what do the states that lead in educational excellence do with these questions? Do they complain or do they exceed expectations? — S.S.
LEGISLATORS SHOULD design a mechanism that increases gasoline taxes as oil prices fall to make up the lost revenue. Such an arrangement wouldn’t have to cost consumers more because they will still save on the cost of gasoline from falling prices. — A.S.
THE U.S.-MEXICAN border is 1,989 miles long. There are (roughly) 255 working days in each year. If a 20-foot-high wall could be built at an unrealistic rate of one quarter mile per day, it would take 31 years to complete the construction of the 1,989-mile wall. — P.K.
COYOTES ARE AN important part of the balance of nature. We live in an area where coyotes have existed for many years. I love to see them when they go by our fenced property. I have never experienced any coyote predation because I have a 6-foot chain link fence around the entire property. — G.M.
I’M SO TIRED of hearing about people and families being killed from drunken drivers. We need to step up as a community, and stop letting friends and family members leave a party or concert and drive home knowing they’re intoxicated. — H.E.
CHANGE EDUCATION by limiting the amount of social media our youth have access to. This is where the greatest amount of distractions are happening. Why can’t you talk to people without texting; why can’t you call or meet up? — C.V.
WHY DO LEFT-WING Democrats always put on an act against “the rich” when in fact most of the richest members of Congress and most of the billionaires in the U.S. are themselves left-wing Democrats? — J.C.