Today's Opinions

Las Vegas, we have a problem. No one wants to talk about this huge white elephant in the room but everyone knows the problem.

The problem is the blatant violation of traffic laws throughout town. We have speeding, illegal cell phone use, running stop signs and the list continues. Traffic laws are in place for public safety reasons and when we have a minority that ignores traffic laws it jeopardizes everyone’s safety.

Some Las Vegans might not even be aware of it. Those who enter or leave town via one of the Interstate 25 ramps on the north or south end of town don’t always have the opportunity to take in the view.

The “view,” courtesy of local junkmeister Tony Ortega, is an unmitigated blight on the community. It besmirches all that a great many people hold dear; it taints the last vestiges of community pride in helping create an attractive community.

One of my old bosses liked to say that running a newsroom is like herding cats. In many ways, that’s true.

We’re questioners by nature, not blind followers of authority.

But the media often act like a herd when it’s covering a big story.

The TV stations and daily newspapers in the Albuquerque-Santa Fe corridor closely follow one another, often covering the same stories.

You don’t see them often around here, except when big stories break such as the infamous sexual assaults at a Robertson High School football camp.