I see the city is imposing another backdoor tax increase in the form of a burglar alarm fee. Police service along with refuse service are the two basic services that the city is supposed to be providing with our tax money.

This annual registration paid to the city for our home alarms is outrageous. Just another way the city wants to get into our pocketbook. Fine us for false alarms, OK, but no one needs to register with that information. It is available from the alarm company.

I wonder if somebody could explain why the 911 Call Center can't move into the old city building or some building that we already own. There are a lot of empty buildings that are owned by the government.

I'd like to see the Kmart property on El Paseo used for a state-of-the-art animal shelter, and I mean a no-kill animal shelter.

The idea to convert the soon-to-be vacated Kmart to a new Munson has merit. So far as converting it to the mental-health facility, it would not be big enough.

I don't understand where all this giveaway stuff to senior citizens came from. Ninety percent of the people that use the senior centers have a home, a family, relatives. We don't need to feed them, entertain them and pay so darn much money just because they are seniors and they are bored.

I believe it is a crying shame how the Las Cruces Sun-News has disrespected the dead with their obituary and death notices on Thursday.


Impossible to read. All fuzzy pictures.

I agree with Jim Harbison. Senator Bingaman did not accomplish anything constructive for New Mexico during his 30 years in the Senate, except build on his own personal agenda, stay below the radar, build on his ego and get a plush retirement for life.

"We must make hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit," — Obama's inaugural speech. Krauthammer says, "This speech was spectacularly devoid of any acknowledgment" of "debt reduction." When spinning isn't good enough, Mr. Krauthammer simply lies.

Mr. Krauthammer explains that Obama's mission is to "resurrect the 50 year pre-Reagan liberal ascendancy." I don't know if that is true, but it would be great to go back to ever-shrinking deficits we had before "borrow and spend" Republicans took over.

Maybe "you Republicans" and "you Democrats" should start putting state and country before party and stop labeling, insulting and vilifying each other. "We Americans" have been divided in all ways possible by a biased media and partisan politicians, making us blind to objective truth.

It has always seemed to me that men went into battle out of a God-given sense of responsibility and duty to protect the weaker among us and our society as a whole. Women are now being allowed in the foxhole out of a sense of political correctness.

The fact is Reagan cut taxes early on but it became obvious they were not producing enough revenue. He had to raise taxes seven times during his presidency. He still added $8.1 trillion to the debt that Clinton cleaned up. The myth that tax cuts produce revenue has been proven false over and over.

Our ambassador's father said on TV, his son pleaded with emails to our State Department for help at Benghazi but didn't get it. So a note to other embassys. Don't bother emailing to Washington. They are too busy to read them.