Reports and Opinions By Larry Joseph Calloway
The arising distrust of electronic voting machines and their makers can be calmed by the simple application Tom Stoppard’s famous quote.
Diversity, in the view of the president of the National Association of Election Directors, is the best safeguard against vote rigging. But in New Mexico a few county clerks have taken diversity over the hill.
You’d think Max and Bill would be allies, having, you’d think, the same enemies. But everything based on experience elsewhere fails in New Mexico.
Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington is bringing his cultural clash model home to the American Southwest, but it could be a clash crash
American public life is anti-intellectual as hell. Advice to John Kerry: don’t think in public.
OK. The governor of Arizona is from New Mexico. The northern New Mexico congressman is from Arizona. The two square border states voted the same on the same day. But they’re different, no?
Trouble with a judge? The highways? The schools? Who ya gonna call? In New Mexico now, you call the governor’s office.
New Mexico’s response to the drought is being written by lawyers and political experts. Meteorologists and geologists don’t write that good.
A review of two speeches in which national news executives express to their colleagues why paid political diatribes are becoming a threat to their traditional journalism.
Too bad rapid Bill Richardson’s idea about light rail transportation avoids the Albuquerque Central problem. Too bad Mayor Martin Chavez is unrealistic. Urban light rail works in the four biggest North American Rocky Mountain metro areas. The fifth is Albuquerque. Impossible dream?