R. Braiden Trapp

County could do city projects, with approval

City
    The Española City Council at its April 22 meeting voted 8-0, with no discussion, to approve a joint powers agreement with Rio Arriba...

Don’t Stop CommissionersFrom Cleaning House

Editorials
    The recent dust up between Public Regulation Commissioners Valerie Espinoza, D-Santa Fe, and Ben Hall, R-Ruidoso, trying to bring the rest of the...

Bids for field lighting reviewed

City
    The city of Española’s $1 million softball field is moving slowly toward completion, with one of the last needed infrastructures being the fence...

Councilor opens plastic bag ban talk

City
    “Paper or plastic?” won’t be a question heard from Española retailers if Española City Councilor Eric Radosevich has his way.     Radosevich opened a...

Two Blue Heron liquor licenses approved

City
    Blue Heron Brewing Company got a double dose of love April 22 from the Española City Council. The Embudo-based company had two licenses...

Give, Think Locally First

Editorials
    Give Grande New Mexico holds its inaugural online fundraiser May 6 and we’re hoping it will be huge. If you read Tom McDonald’s...

Yes A Sewer Plant

Editorials
    There’s more than a few people around Rio Arriba County scratching their heads wondering how the County decided to seek funding for a...

Quit Trying to Skirt RuleGet Audits Current

Editorials
    It’s human nature that drives us to find a way around an obstacle, when we want the prize badly enough.     In the city...

Military Vehicles Unnecessary

Editorials
    Many Albuquerque residents are complaining their police department has become too militarized. It’s an interesting term and one that brings images of police...

No Confidence in Northern

Editorials
    Tuition is too high.     Services are sliding.     Administrators get raises, yet you rely on adjunct professors to teach for a fraction paid to...

Fees, By Any Other Name,Remain Fees

Editorials
    Leave it to Northern New Mexico College and its creative accounting to concoct a “tuition” scheme that incorporates fees. While Northern’s vice president...

It Feels As IfThe Circus Left Town

Editorials
    The city of Española dodged a giant, hollow-point bullet March 27, when Michelle Martinez won a best-two-out-of-three coin toss, which decided the District...
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