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It was a great feeling, reading the letter by a true gentleman. And maybe a scholar too, who wrote articulately, in a balanced manner and laid the blame at the altar of politicians.

Let me explain: The letter writer’s identify is still a secret, but we do know that he’s a wrestler from Rio Grande High School in Albuquerque who was in the middle of an exam at the time the court case he was involved in was taking place. That made it impossible for him to attend the court hearing; his attorney read the letter for him.

In 1963

Why are corporate America and gun owners the only people in America who are allowed to interpret without question the U.S. Constitution? The rest of us are met with skepticism and alarm from various authorities and elected officials when we read, think about and use the Constitution for ourselves to assert our rights. Recent passage of the Las Vegas and Mora County Community Rights ordinances illustrate this bias.

Several of the usual suspects were chipping about on the upper half of the leaderboard as day one of the Class 1A-3A state golf tournaments drew to a close Monday evening at New Mexico Tech in Socorro.

Kristen Cline of hometown school Socorro High held a one-stroke lead atop the girls’ standings with a first-round 75.

Nipping at her heels were Sandia Prep’s Klara Castillo and Socorro teammate Shania Berger, tied for second with a 76, and Socorro’s Mia Salome, fourth with a 78.