Howard De La Cruz-Bancroft

Editorial Summary

1. Want to see homeowners able to protect themselves and their property without having to wait until an intruder is inside their home ie. "Home as Castle Doctrine". Don't like criminals being able to sue homeowners if they are injured while committing a crime on homeowners property. 2. Want to see emergency & urgent care wait times to be close to one hour. Want to see health care costs for Rx be reduced by introducing legislation such as Pharmacy Intervention Protocol (PIP). 3. Want to see PNM allow oversizing of PV (Photovoltaic) solar panels/units on homes that can be paid off in 5 years while sending electricity back to the grid and zero cost bills during those first five years. 4. Want to see educational choice to parents where to send their kids to school and find a way to reduce the time parents spend on overly stressful type homework with their children. This means changing state benchmarks to align with federal benchmarks. 5. Would like to see Educational Assistants make a decent wage. 6. Would like to see student wages as an option for employers. 7. Want to participate in finding a way to make homeowner tax rates more equitable. 8. Want banks to allow consumers who are experiencing identity theft crimes to close or freeze accounts without having to pay off the balance. Want to make interest rates near prime and service charges to be related to the cost of an item. 9. Want to see distributors of phishing attempts & spam pay fines.