Family Mourns Sisters; 'Basketball Was Their Life' (Another NM DWI tragedy)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | March 7, 2010 | Jessica Dyer And Karen Peterson

[CedarDave]

I don’t excuse this, have no use for anyone who drinks and drives much less over and over again, but I am intrigued about whether there is a gene that makes Indian’s predisposed to alcohol abuse.

I'm sure there is something in their genes. Gallup and Farmington NM are two locations where alcoholism among native-Americans is rampant. Gallup has taken steps to close liquor stores and stop cheap wine from being sold to the Navajo's. There are several RR related deaths each year there where they are either struck while crossing or pass out on the mainline BNSF tracks.

[driftless2]

If they’re looking for some way to use the stimulus money to employ people, they could use it to hire the unemployed residents of Farminton and a few other cities my wife and I drove through last October to pick up all the damn litter on the streets. We couldn’t believe all the trash lying by the roadside as we passed through Farmington.

[CedarDave]

I’ve always thought of NM as the “land of litter.”

[IYAS9YAS]

I’ve always thought of NM as the “land of litter.”

When my dad came to visit one of the first things he commented on was all the trash (Rio Rancho). I told him we pick up our property, but with the way the wind blows, it's a real pain to keep up with. We don't even bother with the roads or properties (empty) near us. It just isn't worth it.