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Don't look now but the U.S. presidential election might figure into what, if anything, New Mexico's elected leaders do about universal health care this year.

Problem is, we can't help but look. I'll cite a couple of examples.

An elderly friend from Chimayo spent hours recently in a Santa Fe emergency room after waking up imbalanced that morning. Back at home later, she awaited word about various tests, hoping to learn something specific about what had struck her suddenly and inexplicably. What she got first was a bill for $9,000.

In Cundiyo, an uncle has struggled increasingly with a bad...

Sunday, April 6, 2008
by David Roybal • Journal Santa Fe

So, did the Clintons own Bill Richardson going into the current presidential campaign season? James Carville apparently thinks so, and the uniquely colorful Democratic strategist unleashed some of his most biting rhetoric to make his point after Richardson gushed on national television about upstart Barack Obama.

Just as Jesus was betrayed by Judas, so, too, were the Clintons betrayed by Richardson, snarled Clinton pal Carville.

Hillary and Bill Clinton have so far taken the high road while publicly addressing Richardson's defection. Arguably, remaining civil while surely wishing they could...

Sunday, March 30, 2008
by David Roybal • Journal Santa Fe

COLUMN: Horace Mann, before his death in 1859, pressed hard for educational reforms and was credited with helping to establish our nation's elementary schools. He, or more accurately, work done in his name, might well have saved my little sister's life and preserved my father's sense of providing for his family under very trying times.

Nearly 50 years ago, my father drove my mother to the Española Hospital in their 1952 Pontiac for the birth of their fourth child. She came into the world with an imperfect heart and, beginning with her first breath, was a very sick child.

Saturday, January 20, 2007
by David Roybal • Journal Santa Fe