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Hopefully Not A Trend

    Is it a jail? Is it a detention center? One woman who spent an evening there has made it clear, it doesn’t matter...

Bad Brackets and Basketball Mania

It was gratifying to do some snowshoeing in late March and find a lot of snow in the Santa Fe National forest. Although the...

Didn’t Take the Photo

 The Rio Grande SUN published a photo March 25 of graffiti related to a story about Kathy Borrego and her husband, Jerry Archuleta. The...

Wal-Mart Has MoreThan Just Low Prices

    Look at one number, 1,470, and it’s all you need to know about the crime problem in Española. That’s the number of calls...

Judge Has Tough ChoiceIn Murder Plea Sentencing

    Opinions and the expression thereof were not in short supply last week in regard to the story about Joe Martinez and Rose Garcia...

Wonderland Revisited

    As Mayor Alice Lucero’s hiring decisions play out through the looking glass, we have some good news and bad news in Wonderland.     After...

State Missing RevenueWith Poor DMV Operation

When you’ve got a product that is in demand, good business practice says you put your resources behind that product, support it, grow it....

Voters Can CorrectSecretary of State’sPoor Performance

    If you look at New Mexico Blue Books through history you’ll find secretaries of state have always been the good guys. Well they’re...

Why Can’t StateLive Within Its Means?

    In the end, the axiom, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, always wins. When the state house of representatives and the...

DWI Team Needs HelpWith Post Prom Party

That dynamic DWI duo are back for a repeat performance. The two ladies who broke new ground last year by putting together the north’s...

Problems Piling upOn Solid Waste Authority

    We opined here not so long ago that if the North Central Solid Waste Authority doesn’t get its act together there will be...

Not in Poor Taste

    Our reporting and publishing of the suicide death of John Montoya prompted a letter from a reader who was deeply offended by our...

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