Robert Trapp

Lottery Director Again after Students’ Money

    The gall, the nerve, the absolute impudence of New Mexico Lottery Authority Executive Director David Barden to ask the state Legislative Finance Committee...

Reporting News Not for the Faint of Heart

    As politicians, talking heads and mixed media continue to pronounce newspapers dead, a student newspaper at Northwestern University in Illinois tried to push...

Election Errors Costly, Difficult to Remedy

    Conducting a smooth county-wide election is no small task. For a glimpse of how complicated an election can be just look at the...

Seeds Trial Should Be Wake up Call for Many

    In a perfect world, certain local politicians would take notice of Laura Seeds’ trial for voter fraud. However, like almost every thief, many...

Encourage CNN Hero with Votes, Community Support

    CNN’s website states, “Prepare to be inspired.” We already were.     Moving Arts Española’s Roger Montoya was just named one of CNN’s 10 heroes....

Taking Home Vehicles Is A Quantifiable Benefit

    The competition to hire law enforcement officers throughout New Mexico is always pretty stiff. Agencies hold out carrots such as higher salaries, higher...

Vote Yes on Northern’s 2-mill Levy

Voters have some difficult decisions to make Nov. 5 when it comes to how much they’d like to pay in property taxes and for...

Jemez Co-op Board Keeps Members Guessing

    Attorney Blair Dunn in court Sept. 30, pretty much cleaned Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative ringleaders’ collective clock. Representing Bruce Duran, Dunn regained Duran’s...

Sheriff’s Behavior Should Concern Public

run amok     1. To behave or run around in a wild, unruly, out-of-control manner; to be crazy or chaotic.     It seems after a few...

Newspapers Still Here

    It’s National Newspaper Week, celebrated by none but the die-hard among us who still value local events and coverage, facts, the written word...

School Foundations Should Stand Separately from School Boards

    We hope the Pojoaque School Board finds its moral compass and corrects the shoddy way in which it populates the Pojoaque Valley Schools...

Training May Have Curtailed Sheriff’s Blunder

(Editor's note: this is a corrected version of the editorial that appeared in print, which had Ray Smith's name wrong. It also stated the...

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