Robert Trapp

Politicians Must Stop Guessing Intent of ‘The Framers’

Editorials
Those brave souls who followed the U.S. Senate impeachment hearings subjected themselves to hours of pontification from the right and left and received a...

Account for Education Spending Before Lavishing More Blanket Raises

Editorials
    You can predict it like a Valley shower following a thunderstorm forming over the Jemez Mountains. When there’s a state budget surplus, teacher...

Co-op Board Cowers in Closed Session

Editorials
    Human beings do things in secret when they’re ashamed or fearful. Such was the Jan. 10 vote taken by the Jemez Mountains Electric...

Students Now Have an Advocate on Lottery Board

Editorials
    The New Mexico Lottery Board now has a champion for the students. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham at the end of December appointed Othiamba...

Compassion Guides These Hearts

City
   Jeff Padilla’s group Compassion Through Action is populated by caring people who have their bi-monthly drill down to a science. The Española community...

EPA Must Come Clean in Every Way

Editorials
    Having a Superfund site under you city is a pretty big deal. The Environmental Protection Agency and the New Mexico Environment Department have...

Absent Students Equals Absent Parents

Editorials
    It’s agreed that over half of Española Valley High School students being absent 18 days before the fall semester ends is outrageous and...

County Commissioners Must Address Jail Issues

Editorials
    Rio Arriba County officials may want to sit up and take notice of Nathanael King’s front page story this week about Syndicato Nuevo...

Non-profits Play Lodgers Tax Shell Game

Editorials
    Rio Arriba County’s lodgers tax granting is an annual political football. Disbursements have little connection to merit.     The tax is collected from hotels...

Making Espanola Proud Every Day

Editorials
    No New Mexico politician, at any level, did as much for Española than Roger Montoya did Sunday night. His brief but poignant speech...

Public School Must Find the Sunshine

Editorials
    Unless you were a fly on the wall at past board meetings, or good friends or family of a board member, you’re not...

EPA Must Finish Superfund Site Cleanup

Editorials
    The federal Environmental Protection Agency gave Españolans a new definition of, “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.” We also have...
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