Opinion

Letter: Veto aims to please Bush's few remaining supporters

President Bush has issued his first veto ever.

Ed toons

Letter: Employees' raises lost in other UNM expenditures

I am a steward for the Communications Workers of America Local 7011 and was on the bargaining committee that negotiated raises for UNM employees this year. People keep complaining to me that they do not see the raises they got this year, at least not in the form of real money.

Ed toons

Letter: Bush's veto on stem cells not morally responsible

Does it make sense from any standpoint to destroy embryonic stem cells instead of using them for the potential benefit of us all?

Letter: University must consider students' dollars limited

UNM has done it again - screwing over its students in the name of profit. Parking fees have increased across the board, and now the only places where any student can park are the South Lot and the Zia Lot. Every other lot has been restricted to certain minority groups of students, with the rest of us left to scramble for alternatives.

Column: Middle East conflict distorted by U.S.

In a telling statement on Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton urged "all parties" in the escalating conflict in the Middle East to "accept the principle that governments must exercise sovereign control over their territories." If only U.S. and Israeli leaders adhered to their own pronouncements, the Middle East would not be facing its biggest disaster in a quarter century.

Ed toons

Letter: Properties named after governor imply big ego

What does it say about an elected official who gets state properties and facilities named for himself or a family member while he or she is still in office?

Letter: Part of being American is caring for our citizens

I am appalled at the lack of compassion Mark Erasmus has for his fellow citizens who are less fortunate than himself. How long has it been since Erasmus has had to work a minimum wage job and try to survive on that pay? I doubt that he ever has, or he might remember how difficult it was.

Letter: Impeachment policies inconsistent, unjustified

As a concerned American citizen, I just have to ask: If Clinton was impeached for lying about sex, why has Bush not been impeached for lying about a war?

Letter: Wait has been too long for minimum wage increase

I am responding to Mark Erasmus' letter "Constitution does not guarantee minimum wage" in the July 6-12 Daily Lobo.

Letter: Nudity is obscene in only sexually insane societies

Responding to the letter "Nude photos degrading, regardless of intent" in the July 6-12 Daily Lobo, I love living naked at home and mostly naked elsewhere, when I am warm enough. My naked healthy body is my best and favorite suit.

Ed toons

Column: Both sides agree war is failing

With the arrest of seven al-Qaida suspects in Miami last week and National Public Radio's revelation Monday that the CIA has disbanded the unit assigned to hunting Osama bin Laden and his top associates, serious questions have re-emerged about the Bush administration's approach to stifling the growing threat of nonstate terrorism.

Letter: Besides boots, Texan shares nothing with Bush

George W. Bush and I both were born in Texas. Quite possibly that is the only thing we have in common, except that I still, on occasion, wear boots.

Letter: Nude photos degrading, regardless of intent

This is in response to Lucinda Ulrich's complaint about the dismissal of art teacher Tamara Hoover in the June 29-July 5 Daily Lobo. I found something in her column to be somewhat ambiguous. She claims that Hoover's nude pictures were "artistic, not pornographic." By what standards is anyone able to make this distinction? What's the difference?

Letter: Popejoy parking structure should be boycotted

I was appalled to find out that the prices at the parking structure near Popejoy Hall were so high. I parked there for three hours and was charged $5.

Letter: Constitution does not ensure minimum wage

I am absolutely pleased with the Senate's vote not to raise the minimum wage. Furthermore, it should be taken a step further and repealed all together.

Letter: Not banning aspartame would be harmful to all

Concerning the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board's decision on whether to move forward with banning aspartame, the artificial sweetener, "Delay and deflect" should not be the modus operandi in this matter. So many lives are at stake, and my intent as petitioner is only to prevent further neurodegenerative and carcinogenic damage, as well as the inevitable behavior problems, learning disabilities and birth defects resulting from corporations gratuitously and unnecessarily adding a chemical metabolized as formaldehyde and methanol to 6,000 food products and more than 500 children's medications.