Letters to Editor

Dear Editor:

PETA's Hell on Wheels truck rolled up to North Bullard Street on Sunday—to make its point: animals aren't ours to exploit. Every animal is someone. Please, go vegan.

Pigs are intelligent, emotionally complex beings who form close bonds and communicate with each other using over 20 different sounds. They have excellent memories, love to play, sunbathe, and even find comfort in music—when they're allowed to live peacefully.

But on factory farms, they're denied everything that makes life worth living. Instead, they're crammed into filthy, crowded warehouses before being loaded onto trucks and sent to slaughterhouses to endure terrifying, violent deaths.

That's why the PETA truck was there—to confront people with the truth the meat industry hides. Wrapped in life-sized images of pigs jammed into transport crates, it made cruelty visible. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Sincerely,

Scott Miller
The PETA Foundation

Letter to the Editor,

The Beat is a source of news to many of the residents of Grant County, not all live in a municipality but in outlying areas of the county. If there is a situation developing in an area the residents have a right to know about it. It is a great help to have the LE blotters to inform the residents. Names and specific addresses are not being asked for.

It was noted in one of the news releases that the Beat may need to file a request for public information. This brings up the question of why now? I am wondering if this doesn't have something to do with the recent publicity that our Sheriffs Office has been under.

I had never heard of Grant County NM before and now I wish I never had heard of it.

Are you telling us nobody knew this guy was a psychotic?
So the one deputy is suspended with pay?
And the officers who filmed and laughed?
And the leadership that created an environment where this stuff flourishes?

I want to know why the deputies that filmed it and laughed and the leadership are still working.
And I want to know how they interview job applicants and supervise behavior.

To all police agencies and central dispatch,

Please allow Grant County Beat access to the police blotter. I live in Mimbres and unfortunately we have crime in our valley and I have family in Bayard. My sister is 84 years old and is afraid and worried about the crime around her. The police blotter alerts the people to the location of crimes and those we should be concerned about. We are grateful to dispatch and the law enforcement agencies for their services, but we the people also need to know of the crime in our areas so we can also be prepared.

Linda
Mimbres NM

To the editor:

As a former reporter and newspaper editor I can promise you that police logs provide critically important information to the residents of an agency's jurisdiction, information that helps us determine the safety and risks present in our neighborhoods and communities.

Restricting or eliminating access to police logs is just plain wrong and a dereliction of the duty to protect and enhance public safety. It is not about staff convenience, although I understand our departments are often under stress.

William Powell

Hurley

Good afternoon, all,

I'd like to add my voice to the concern over the missing police blotters.

I relocated here from Orange County, California, a couple of years ago. Great decision.

I didn't expect our fair city to be a hundred percent crime free,of course, but reading the police blotters was a good way to keep up on what's happening and what's important in the communities.

The importance of the police blotters can be reduced to three simple reasons:

• Public safety by awareness of criminal activity;

• Information provided that may assist in apprehension; and

• Reports of judicial action taken which allows for evaluation of law enforcement and the court system.

Mark

Gila, NM

[Editor's Note: I posted this the first time with ALL of the names of the people who provided information to this letter to the editorial. I was told I could post  it as it was written. Then somebody threw a fit and I had to take names off. But I have been reminded that my policy is NOT to publish anonymous letters to the editor, so the letter is gone! People need to follow the submission rules!)

[Editor's Note No. 2: I got permission for someone to be named as the author of the letter, and I redacted other names, except for those in current leadership positions in HMS.]

To whom it may concern,

I was present for the town hall meeting in May, as well as the one that was held last night at the convention center. There were lots of issues that I feel were blanketed just like was mentioned by concerned community members in the last meeting. When asked about the statistics for providers leaving, we all got board member Rusty Tolley stating how well CEO Dan Otero did the research and got the numbers. Dr. Nelson [previous chief medical officer over the residency program] debunked his lies on how to properly get the numbers needed for a facility based on reference to the state level.