Democracy hits a speed bump

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By Carter Bundy I’m not exactly a saint on our freeways. But I like speed bumps in neighborhoods with straight streets and Unser wannabes. Unless the bumps are shaped like Lincoln Logs. You know, the ones that make your car fall apart like the Red Sox in September even if you’re only going 5 miles per hour. Those are bad. Continue Reading

Honoring a soldier who could have become president

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By Carter Bundy Political signs aren’t common at funerals. I remember when Paul Wellstone’s supporters exhibited a bit of, to my taste, over-the-top theatrics at his memorial ceremony. But on Tuesday, I saw political signs for the first time in person at the funeral of Army Sergeant James C. Akin. And it felt just right. Akin and three other soldiers were killed June 3 by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Continue Reading

Meet this site’s new progressive columnist

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When I announced last week that Whitney Cheshire would join this site as a weekly columnist, I said the conservative Wednesday Morning Quarterback would be balanced by a progressive writer. Meet Carter Bundy, who will write a weekly column called Left @ Albuquerque. You might recall Bundy writing a guest column on immigration last week. He is the political and legislative director for AFSCME in New Mexico and a recovering lawyer who left the bright lights of New York for the 2000 Gore campaign and now lives in Albuquerque. Bundy will be writing from his own perspective, not that of AFSCME. Continue Reading

Why earned citizenship – which isn’t amnesty – is fair

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By Carter Bundy I’m unhappy any time we ignore our laws. Well, maybe not speeding laws. But the Senate’s new immigration proposal rewards illegal behavior, and that’s generally bad. Immigration is complicated, and I’ve come to believe in some kind of earned citizenship. (“Amnesty” would be a lot quicker, easier and surer. Continue Reading