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Engineering Students Bring Home Minority Awards

    Ask Ruben Rivera or Johnny Medrano to explain how gases flow throughout a domain and you’d better be up on your physics and...

Northern Gives Helping Hand to Incoming Freshmen

Northern New Mexico College’s Summer Bridge/El Puente Program wrapped up July 28, sending 38 students into their freshman year better-armed to succeed in college,...

You’ve Got a Friend in the Valley

Some call them the greatest generation but hearing the list of serious needs, lack of support and family disinterest nearing abandonment, many of today’s...

Crisis Center Video Wins Award, Wide Distribution

    Carol Merriweather was looking for a vehicle to deliver the message to Northern New Mexicans that there’s help for domestic violence victims and...

Mayor, Please HireA City Manager

   This is a corrected version of the editorial published June 26, which stated Oscar Rodriquez took the job at Las Vegas. He did...

State Police SecrecyMust Be Challenged

    We never thought we would write: we miss Gordon Eden as New Mexico cabinet secretary for State Police. Eden left the state political...

New City Police ChiefAlready Here

Mayor Alice Lucero Paseo de Oñate Española, N.M. Mayor;     We assume by now you’ve received Rio Arriba County Sheriff Tommy Rodella’s application for the city police chief...

Maybe Espanola DodgedThe Proverbial Bullet

    The events surrounding what our mayor is calling “negotiations” with city manager candidate Timothy Dodge over the past three weeks border on surreal.    ...

Northern Wants to DecideWhat Free Speech Is

    Surely everyone is for students, teachers and administrators exercising Respectful Campus and Freedom of Expression and Dissent protocols. We’re adults, right? We all...

Charter School Squatting

    When a landlord is fed up with renters or needs the premises vacated for other reasons, the landlord give sthe tenants notice. State...

Victim Didn’t Get Justice

    It’s understandable that judges are saddled (or blessed) with the yoke of minimum and maximum punishments to be meted out to those convicted...

School Board ConfabWas Clearly Secret

    The blatant disregard Española School Board members show for the public process is shameful at best and clearly illegal in the extreme. They...

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