“Can’t the police do something about the problem of chronic barking dogs on Candlelight Drive? Animal Control has visited the home with the purple Cadillac constantly. According to Animal Control, these people have been cited numerous times for excessive noise and been taken to court several times, arrested at least once for contempt of court when they didn’t even bother to show up for one of their hearings. Despite the damage to quality of life for their neighbors, the fact that their neighbors are moving by droves, and the fact these criminals don’t seem to care how many times they are dragged into court or arrested, Animal Control keeps giving them citations in the vain hope this will stop their behavior. It should be clear by now it won’t. Can’t the police come up with some cause of action?”
“According to your newspaper, the candidates were supposed to have their yard signs out of yards and roadways so many days after the election. Kathy Colley needs to pick up her signs at Willow Creek. It would beautify the neighborhood if they were gone.”
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“This call is in regard to the Rio Transit system, which operates for 55-year-old (or older) people and the disabled. Discrimination, as described in Webster’s Dictionary, is the treating of people differently. (After difficulty obtaining tires, I was refused a ride). I went out on NM 528, in front of Cottonwood Mall, and a trucker gave me the ride I needed, so I didn’t have to walk three or four miles. But, in fact, Rio Transit is discriminatory and it’s just one more violation of law here in Rio Rancho.”
“This call is to complain about firemen and policemen campaigning for Tom Swisstack on Election Day some 50 or 100 feet from polling locations. They have to be 500 feet from polling stations. I wonder if these police and firemen that were engaging voters and using intimidating tactics were on the clock while they were standing in front of the polling stations politicking for Swisstack. It’s illegal, it’s unconstitutional and it’s immoral.”
“The Republicans should just stay home in November. I think you’ve done quite enough already to hurt this country. Our dollar is worth 48 cents now. Oil is at $110 a barrel. If you think your vote for president didn’t cause this horrible mess in America, you are delusional. You did this. Please stay home in November.”
“A response to this rant: “I’m calling because I’d like to know what happened to all the decent people in Rio Rancho. The local porn shop, Mr. Happy, put on a public display a few weeks ago and nobody seemed to complain about it. I don’t think we need his type of business in our city because porn shops, in my opinion, cause injury to innocent women and children. ‘To Mr. Happy, I would say get your business out of town; we don’t need you.’ Are you kidding! A porn shop? Really, that’s what you would categorize Mr. Happy as? You really need to get out more. And who are all those innocent women and children that are being injured? What injuries are they suffering exactly? No one batted an eye a few weeks ago, because it’s a non-issue, a fun gag. Have a sense of humor.”
“As a parent and business community member, I would like to applaud the Rio Rancho High School students that attended the boy’s state basketball game at the Pit on Thursday. The students in attendance were not only well behaved but showed true team spirit. It was impressive to see these young adults represented their school in such a positive manner without supervision. To see about so many students sit and socialize amongst themselves during time-outs and halftime but once the game started they stood up and cheered n it was a truly impressive. It was also notable to the have the band in attendance. It showed those attending the game that the school supports their athletes. The school administration and the student’s parents should be proud. Go Rams! Thanks!”
“While I continue to eagerly await an official response to my inquiry and an earlier inquiry before mine in the Rants and Raves section about those damnable posts near Ace Hardware on 528, I must respond to the rant on March 13 that made excuses for a dangerous and ill-conceived bit of traffic engineering. The original rant came from a reader who witnessed a near-accident as a driver swerved to avoid smacking into a barrier placed in the middle of oncoming traffic. The swerving driver nearly hit another car. Meanwhile, I have witnessed two near rear end collisions as cars slammed on their brakes to avoid plowing into the posts. I thought traffic engineers were supposed to solve traffic problems, not create new ones with misguided solutions. I am baffled why any traffic engineer would consider it wise to put barriers directly in the path of traffic, especially in an area with such heavy traffic and with a relatively high speed limit. These are barriers that often cannot be seen by motorists until they plow into them. The explanation that if the first polls were wiped out, heavier posts have been the answer is not indicative of a win-win solution that might force compliance with the law while not causing accidents and putting other, absolutely innocent drivers at risk. At the least, Rio Rancho owes drivers flashing warning lights or warning signs well in advance to give them an alternative to swerving or sudden braking as these unpleasant little surprises, standing in the middle of the right-turn lane, suddenly reveal themselves.”
“I find it extremely disturbing that the assistant principal at Rio Rancho Mid-High used a racist slur to address a student. I find it even more disturbing that the school thinks that all needed to rectify this indecency is an apology. There is nothing you can say that would make up for the hurt feelings of this child. Yes, children can be frustrating to work with, yes they can make you loose you temper, but as a figure of authority you need to find better ways of expressing yourself. The assistant principal should not be in a position of authority, because by stooping to such a low level of name calling he has lost every ounce of confidence he was once given.”
“In response to the column about people filing frivolous medical lawsuits and collecting disability payments for their own drunken accidents. I believe that there is a growing population in this country that feels as if they are ‘entitled’ to anything and everything their little hearts desire. My grandfather fought in WWI and was seriously injured. When he passed 26 years ago, leaving my grandmother with a mortgage she couldn’t handle, taken out to cover medical bills he had incurred, I was a newly graduated nurse. I asked the social worker at my hospital what grams could do to save her home. She told me, and I drove my Mom the four hours to Pennsylvania to sit down with my grams and lay everything out for her. Grams was incensed. She looked at food stamps and the other programs available to her as handouts. Her family had emigrated from Austria and she was first generation American. “If I can’t pay the bills on this house, I shouldn’t have it,” she declared. So she sold the home my Mom had been raised in and moved in with another daughter. She lived to be 93 and till the day she died, she was fiercely proud of never having had to take “a handout.” So all of you all that are looking to the government to support you for the rest of your lives take a lesson from the strongest woman I have ever known. If you want something, work for it. If you can’t afford to buy it, tough. No one owes you anything in this world. As JFK said ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.’”
“It amazes me that every time the city of Rio Rancho needs money for problems that should have been addressed before the fact, such as in site plan reviews, they want to put the burden on the tax payers. Every developer should by law be responsible for submitting a site plan. These site plans contain all the information required to develop any construction site. They contain site elevations, street locations and elevations, building locations, street lighting, and traffic studies. The City has said in a past article that they have waived some of these reviews and now they want to eliminate them all together. This is exactly what got them into trouble in SAD7. The city should enforce their law on site plan review, if they did they would not have these problems. The developer should pay for all the sites development. I don’t care if a homeowner does not want roads. You should not be allowed to build a house with out any site development.”
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