Letters

I recently had a medical emergency at my house and I’ll have to admit that, despite living in the country, the response time was fair.

I know we have good EMTs on board right now, but Mora County is pretty spread out, and there is always room for improvement.

I know I’m not in office anymore, but what happens in Mora County has a big effect on me and all the citizens. I have a few suggestions that could very well help to save lives.

We, the God-fearing citizens of Las Vegas, N.M., in order to provide for the common good, save our dignity, prevent insanity and civil disobedience, hereby endorse Tom McDonald for pig kisser of our community. He is just such a ham.

We believe that Mr. McDonald (not Ronald) is most deserving of the honor of showing our community that, in many instances, pigs are people, too. We deal with pigs every day (no pun intended, Chief Montaño). No offense, Honey. ...

I’ve spoken out many times about the problem of losing access to our public lands on Whites Peak. But in fact New Mexico hunters have been losing access to public lands all over the state for years, simply because there was only one road to a particular piece of land and suddenly the landowner put up a gate.

Last week Carole Pearson wrote about Amnesty International’s concern regarding the size and thus comfort level of solitary confinement cells in prisons.

Also last week a man walked into an Aurora, Colo. theater, murdered a dozen, and injured scores more.

If one applies AI’s concern to James Holmes, our most recent mass murderer, I wonder if they’ll be requesting a larger cell for Mr. Holmes to ensure he is justifiably comfortable? I suspect they’ll wait awhile until other news overrides his murder spree and then ask for some compassion for Mr. Holmes.