News: July 10: “No Middle Ground”
Street sense
While I can appreciate the stance of the ACLU, as a person who drives past a very narrow median on a regular basis, I am concerned for the health and safety of those standing on the medians as well as drivers who may accidentally injure someone. I have seen people staggering into turn lanes. Often, there is also a dog with the person on the narrow median, which is terrifying. Because there are other medians that are wider and presumably safer, it seems sensible to restrict the use of the very narrow medians, especially given that is supported by the Santa Fe Police Department.
Rebecca Wright
Santa Fe
Road reason
Santa Fe has always had a compassionate approach to houselessness, and rightly so. The proposed median panhandling ordinance does not outlaw houselessness; it outlaws soliciting money in the middle of traffic. Exposure to this at seemingly every traffic light and stop sign in the city has a psychological impact on motorists. The ordinance should equally apply to the SF New Mexican’s vested newspaper sellers. Sadly, the law appears unenforceable due to weak consequences.
Scott Shuker
Santa Fe
News: “Tom Tomorrow”
Funny and true
Every couple of years someone writes in to say that “Tom Tomorrow” is inappropriate and should be scratched. I hope you never listen to these people.
Who but Tom could have illustrated the irony and buffoonery of our Supreme Court? And who else could have brought us “Drony Drone”—that armed, but lovable, intelligence gathering platform circling silently near us?
This Modern World IS the first amendment.
Steve Boyles
Santa Fe
Online: “Baldwin Trial Begins”
So many questions…
Gun is in your hands; whatever is in it fires and harms another. A normal person would bear some responsibility. Celebrities need to go…also bravo to local crews for being the ones making multiple complaints and quitting.
And nobody ever once said, “I want to see Alex Baldwin in a western.” And what’s with the judge saying, “don’t mention his producer role’”...as a key to why he’s culpable somehow and something people not local especially don’t know that he was a producer; it was basically his passion project...
Stephen Jules Rubin
Santa Fe