Our governor won't raise the minimum wage for the hard-working New Mexicans. She insults the teachers by giving them a 1 percent raise but she gives the race horse community thousands of dollars to make sure that the horses are not running high.

Governor Martinez vetoed a minimum wage correction in deference to her ideological notion that a wage increase costs jobs. Now we hear that she would have supported a 30 cent increase. So, she supports losing a third of those jobs, or doesn't she believe her own rhetoric?

I do not believe that Susana Martinez would have signed any increase in the minimum wage.

Senator Soules, how many of those hungry children's parents have the latest cell phone?

To the caller who said the DA should be dismissing all the petty cases, are we done holding people accountable in Doña Ana? And since when did child abuse become a petty crime?

In response to the person who was upset about the park being named for Johnny Trujillo, please be informed before you ever make such comments. Johnny was a Mesillero from birth till death. And he was proud to say so constantly. I completely agree with you that the Caros, Frietze, and Lucero family should also be honored in some way or another.

How dare you going after Johnny Trujillo. That man was born in Mesilla.


He had a restaurant down there and I worked with the man for many years. So lay off.

Why should the high school track and field athletes have to choose between either the State Meet or their graduation? No one should have to choose between the two since they've worked hard for both. Why can't graduation be in mid-week for the varying schools on different days?

When you are on South Las Alturas and you're going to go west on Cholla, that right-turn lane needs to be repainted. Frequently people get in the right-turn lanes and at the last second they drift back and go straight.

I want to give a huge shout out to Nick and Isaac from the Police Department. They were driving by and saw that we were in distress as we were standing on the sidewalk. After they found out that our dog had escaped, they scoured the neighborhood and found him.

I agree with Jim Harbison, overly generous, taxpayer-funded retirement plans for public employees like Jim Harbison are ruining this country.

It appears that the local frustrated Republicans will not find peace until the Sun-News becomes a virtual arm of the National Review.

There are those who want to stop Hays from printing any liberal things in the Sun-News but they want to give a free hand and let Krauthammer say all he wants to ever say against the liberals.

In 50 years of gun ownership, including 20 in the US Army, I have rubbed elbows with hundreds of owners and users but never once met a macho gunman you liberals keep imagining.

When the NRA rep presented his study at the Press Club in Washington, he had to bring 20 armed guards to protect him from the reporters. Excuse me, protect him from reporters at the Press Club, which is for reporters?

Wayne La Pierre and the other gun salesmen from the NRA are counting on us forgetting those 20 tiny coffins in Newtown, Connecticut. I, for one, was a life member of the NRA, will never forget Newtown.

I don't blame gun owners for a lot of killing any more than car owners that kill a lot of people. Our president is determined to make this country a country of unarmed people.

Once again the old boys in the Senate are trying to blast through an immigration amnesty for illegal aliens, led by Shumer, McCain and Graham of the Gang of Eight. They don't want the public to know what is in the bill until it is passed.

Marriage is for people who love each other and I really don't care if they are the same sex. Mind your own darn business.

Just watched an interview with two people involved in the oil spill in Michigan just like the one happening in Arkansas today. The company in Michigan has already spent $765 million and still has not got it cleaned up after 32 months.

Republicans in Congress don't care about the suffering people are experiencing during the sequester. They are still getting their salary, their perks and their insider trading deals.

Justin Timberlake, Al Green, Queen Latifah, and many others will perform at the White House in a "Memphis Soul" concert next week. Thank goodness, as I was deeply concerned that the sequester might affect the president's entertainment budget.

Unions are what at this point have driven this country into the ground. Their demands are outrageous, that is why the cities in California are going bankrupt.