Letters to the Editor

Grateful for support

Editor:

T-N-T Boxing would like to give a special thanks to the Lineberry Foundation, who has provided us with a grant that will allow us to continue to provide our services to the community.

This funding allows us to continue to support our youth and their families by keeping our facility running efficiently and providing services such as tutoring at no cost to students.

We have many members that have been positively impacted by the services that we provide, and we greatly appreciate the opportunity to continually support our community.”

David Adame

Los Lunas

Football and politics

Editor:

Not even football is safe from political advertisements.

I was watching my team with a group of fans, and BAM! Two political ads one right after the other. Both were for the same candidate — say Candidate X. One ad was for Candidate X; one ad was against Candidate X. One said Candidate X supported a national abortion ban. One said a vote for Candidate X was a vote for a national abortion ban. Will the real Candidate X please stand up? Who am I supposed to trust?

I don’t have a sure fire way to tell, but I have three ideas you might try to get closer to the truth on Candidate X or Candidate Y or Candidate Z.

1. Ask someone you know. You can’t wait for election season to be over, but you have that neighbor, cousin or colleague who loves this stuff. Find that politically-involved person you know and ask why they would or would not vote for Candidate X. You don’t have to agree with them. Just try to get information from them.

2. Ask the New Mexico Secretary of State. Candidates file regular reports with the New Mexico Secretary of State. Go to sos.nm.gov/candidate-and-campaigns/search-public-information-data/financial-disclosures/ to see who is financially supporting Candidate X. And figure Candidate X will share similar interests and values with donors.

3. Ask the internet. Do some quick searching for who Candidate X is speaking to and where Candidate X is going. Did Candidate X write a News-Bulletin column before they were Candidate X? Is there any reason to think those views have changed?

These won’t tell you everything there is to know about Candidate X. But you will have a better shot of being able to think, speak, and vote intelligently about Candidate X.

Then get back to that football game.

Jonathan Gardner

Los Lunas

Not a good spot for a hospital in the county

Editor:

When I heard we were getting a hospital, I was thrilled because my mother was getting older and she needed care.

This was 20 years ago. She has since passed away, but she was treated in an Albuquerque hospital before she passed. I’m not saying the hospital did anything wrong. She was older, she was ill and she didn’t have the energy to fight any longer.

I just wonder if we had a hospital here at the time, would she have fared better? Would she have fought harder because she was seen sooner? We will never know.

Now that the hospital is being built on the west side of Los Lunas, I wonder if the commute would be just as long. I don’t know who picked the place for the hospital, but they must have never drove on Main Street in Los Lunas.

This is the worst possible spot to build a hospital in Valencia County. I hope it works.

Charles Garcia

Los Chavez

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