SpeakUp!: Street racer needs to go to jail for a long, long time

Jul. 23—Abraham Corral Alvarez, 18, who RACED HIS CAR on Central Avenue, careening into patrons enjoying food from the trucks, gravely wounding them, needs to be put away for a long, long time. And any DA or judge who doesn't make that happen needs to be fired by voters ASAP. MP The ALAMOGORDO TRAGEDY resulted from unlimited judicial discretion and the elimination of bail. We must return to a system where defendants charged with violent felonies and misdemeanors and DWI must post bond in order to both guarantee their appearance in court and deter further crimes while out on bail. RJB Albuquerque is so lawless we even allow STREET RACING down Central when food trucks are nearby to service the spectators. Is there any leadership anywhere in this place? CH Thanks mayor — for nothing. The morning (of June 18) a drug-crazed man was throwing GRAPEFRUIT-SIZED ROCKS at cars waiting to enter Costco on south Eubank. Oh lucky us, our windshield was shattered. Luckily we were not injured, but our brand new car was. So much for handling the homeless problems in Albuquerque. CM The NMSU BASKETBALL players and coaches who participated in the shooting disaster at UNM need to face criminal charges. I expect (Attorney General) Raúl Torrez to announce that they are facing a list of charges regarding their cover-up, removing evidence from the scene, and the continued "sleight-of-hand" with the gun following. LM How many more brave and dedicated LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS and law-abiding citizens are we going to have to lose before the Democrats apologize for their revolving door — no bail brainstorm. Anybody with at least two working brain cells know that it ain't working. Please fix it. RH SIXTY CADETS hired to improve APD will only increase numbers and not address the ongoing rampant violent crime nor improve APD. The best way to accomplish both issues is to have (Chief Harold) Medina resign. GC School is starting. Are Democrats parents? Well, thanks to your Democratic Roundhouse, your daughters can now go to school and have an abortion or transgender services WITHOUT PARENTAL KNOWLEDGE. Keep voting Democrat and see it get even creepier. HG Why are 25-30-year-old TREES DYING all over Albuquerque? Why have they been able to survive droughts before, but now they are just dying? What's going on? JJ I work as a RELOCATION COORDINATOR here in Albuquerque. Nobody considering moving here has ever asked if we have an exorbitant amount of dog parks in our city. The concern is schools, and safety in neighborhoods. Keller's got his priorities, that's for sure. CH I have started to look forward to the THIS WEEK IN PHOTOS that the Journal has been publishing every Sunday. They highlight not only neat activities but excellent photography. Thank you for the section. DS I am delighted with you're showing HEADLINES OF PAST years. Hope you keep it up. WM New Mexico CANNABIS SALES reach a new high trumpeted by the Journal (July 13) while Pandora's box has opened to more impaired driving, poisoned children, brain damaged young adults and future workers who have to carry a generation with a motivational syndrome ensuring the rapid demise of Social Security. Thanks MLG. OP In March, an unaccompanied 4-year-old child from Honduras who was medically fragile died at a hospital in Michigan. WHAT PARENT sends their medically fragile child unaccompanied traveling a thousand miles? This is not the fault of Border Patrol but negligence of the parent. KS Remarkably, pain-management physicians in ABQ are still prescribing TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) devices for low back pain. After reviewing studies on TENS for low-back pain, the American Academy of Neurology concluded it is not effective. Also, Medicare no longer covers this use of TENS, for the same reason. Consumer beware. EC Relying on ABQ RIDE for consistent transportation is like playing a daily lottery because each day you must try and guess which scheduled routes they will skip today. When you guess wrong instead of losing money you are left stranded. BV Several states have blocked teaching about climate change. The better informed a society is, and the better its grounding in critical thinking, the more likely it is to take the threat posed by FOSSIL FUELS seriously and act accordingly. There are no "two sides" to global warming. WS I find it unbelievable that the White House invited MLG to be a keynote speaker on CHILD CARE and N.M. ranks 50th in the country in child care. Speechless! DN Just curious, how many people wrote Gov. Lujan Grisham a thank you note for the $500 GIFT? We did. We sure are enjoying it. KW Can't stop laughing about MLG speaking at the White House on how to make childcare affordable. Is she also going to tell them how to make your state dead last in overall CHILDHOOD WELL-BEING and early childhood development? BH Too bad the GOP doesn't have the same level of outrage about the country's fentanyl crisis as they have over the MINUSCULE AMOUNT OF COCAINE found in a public area of the White House. While the scream about "weaponization," "woke" and Barbie movies, Democrats are improving Americans lives. ML All the people who complain about HELPING STUDENTS with higher education costs are the same people who complain that there aren't enough health care professionals. The next time you try to see a specialist in N.M. remember that. PK Front page article with one homeowner getting a $10,000 HOME IMPROVEMENT GRANT. The article gave the electricity and water savings but not in dollars. A quick search of PNM rates and water rates shows a $325 annual savings. That's a 30 year payback. Hardly a good investment for taxpayers. MU All I can say after reading "Electric cars = DEMOCRATIC CONTROL over you" in the July 15 Opinion section is "Wow dude. Wow." AH Why is the New Mexico attorney general not prosecuting those involved in the "FAKE ELECTOR" scheme we suffered back in our own election ...? At least those elected officials that were involved. Seriously, why not? They took an oath. JMC RE: 100+ deaths. Why can't we end hazing? We should END SPORTS altogether considering how corrupt it is on every level. Our own Albuquerque Journal promotes sports on the front page almost every day. People would rather follow sports than what's really happening in this nation. KKW (Kevin) Peterson's paranoid ANTI-GOVERNMENT RANT, Journal July 15, is proof we need stronger civics classes in K-12 education, better access to mental health resources, and someone on the right to explain to them that the things they fear from "Democrat control" exist today at the top of the Republicans. AH If the New Mexico lawmakers and judges would spend at least half the time punishing crime and criminals as they do making excuses for CRIME AND CRIMINALS, New Mexico's drift toward Third World status would decrease dramatically. SL The OPPENHEIMER MOVIE should motivate all people to read Myrriah Gómez's book "Nuclear Nuevo Mexico," about the effects of the nuclear industrial complex on New Mexicans — compares it to another form of colonialism which has caused illness, forever changed communities and contaminated the land. HT We can continue to kick the BAIL REFORM can down the road, resulting in more innocent people being murdered and assaulted, or we can deal with it. This isn't rocket science, but it will take removing from political office those who continue voting against it — Republican or Democrat. GH Why does a bank robber receive a sentence of 80 months and MY SON RECEIVED 12 YEARS for armed robbery his first criminal offense in Bernalillo County? No evidence of any weapon either, and his public defender that should of defended him went against him at sentencing, added more time to sentence. Judicial system where? CJ A Santa Fe resident took the CONCEALED CARRY WEAPONS course but didn't know why. It's simple. To legally conceal. I feel he used CCW course as a way to gripe about the NRA, Second Amendment and all bad things associated with guns. Before he hurts someone he should return the permit. KJ Trump claims he has plans to end the Ukraine War in 24 hours. To prove he is capable of such a feat let him take on a task of less import and end the WRITERS/ACTORS STRIKE. Done before he can eat an Egg McMuffin breakfast. JMR Back in the 1970s HENRY KISSINGER said: "Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world." He was warning us then to global cabals and international treaties. I guess we're to just blindly go into the future and trust what comes of it, eh? HH The request for more tax money was professionally made up to look attractive. The authorities quickly embraced it without a second look. The flashing red lights were everywhere. The contractors vehemently insisted it would save us down the road. The free apartments, motel and shelter bed evictions FILL OUR STREETS. SB CHANNEL 7 and Joe Dias, quit interrupting the national news to tell us it's hot outside or there's a tornado warning in far northeast New Mexico. You spend 15 minutes of interruption telling us the same thing over and over. MAP FOX NEWS continues to make history as most watched network for the seventh-straight quarter, outdrawing CNN and MSNBC. Hannity, Baier, Ingraham and Waters join "The Five" as the top five. New prime time with Ingraham, Waters, Hannity, Gutfeld — right voices at right time. What America needs. DV