Same-day voter sign-up Guv's on right track
Whether or not he'll be around to ride it through the Roundhouse, Gov. Bill Richardson wins our applause for supporting a proposal allowing his fellow New Mexicans to register and vote on Election Day.
This idea's time came more than 30 years ago in populist Minnesota — but since then, only a half-dozen or so states have adopted it. Those resisting the move offer reasons of varying quality. The two main ones:
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Take modern approach to modern pirates
Errol Flynn, Disneyland and historians with a Walter Mitty bent notwithstanding, pirates never were the dashing creatures they're cracked up to be: They were murderers, rapists and thieves who happened to find their victims at sea. Some of their victims might not have been as sympathy-worthy as others, but the pirates were bad guys — and the countries and regimes protecting them were what today we'd call rogue nations.
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Here's a deal for Detroit: mend your wasteful ways
While congressional Democrats are still trying for a $25 billion bailout of America's auto industry, and while the Bush administration remains reluctant to shift any of the vague-but-vast $700 billion bailout in Detroit's direction, some leading financial commentators are taking a hard line to the plea of the Big Three: Let 'em sink under the weight of poor executive decisionmaking and union intimidation.
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Church, state collide at gay-marriage corner
The people — of some states, anyway — have spoken: What they had to say was pretty ugly and un-Christian, considering that a couple of influential churches threw their weight around.
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November 21, 1908: The construction gang on the Albuquerque Eastern Railway now consists of 75 teams and 150 men and more will be put on in a few days. The bridge building crew went to work recently between Moriarty and Frost Junction. A car of dynamite reached Moriarty recently to be used in the grading between Frost and Hagan.
Dr. S.C. Clark, local physician for the Santa Fe Gold & Copper Co. at San Pedro, and a party of friends have returned from a 10 days' hunt in the Jemez Mountains. It was very cold and they found but little game. Indeed had they not taken meat and other provisions with them they would have starved.
November 21, 1983: Albuquerque — About 250 Department of Energy and Westinghouse contractor personnel will move to Carlsbad from Albuquerque within the next two years, a DOE official said today. Carlsbad city officials, as well as the area's elected state representatives, have long argued and pushed for the relocation of DOE and key contractor personnel from Albuquerque to the site. WIPP, in deep salt beds, is the nation's first repository for nuclear wastes.
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Drilling issue: No time to back down
I attended the gas and oil regulation plan meeting Nov. 18 at the County Clerk's Office. The turnout was not as it should have been, given the importance of the issue.
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