Robert Trapp

Be Responsible Walk on Your Own

Editorials
    The cliché is, we’re a litigious society. Two clearly frivolous lawsuits were in the news over the past week.     Both should remind everyone...

Another Public Records Win for the Good Guys

Editorials
    A win for the good guys, when it comes to keeping government processes open to the public.     Justice Miles Hanisee wrote in a...

Pueblo’s Sovereignty Doesn’t Reach Private Land

Editorials
    A La Mesilla family suffered a heart-breaking loss from Sept. 10 to 22 at the hands of Santa Clara Pueblo when it bulldozed...

Keeping Applicants from Public Is Bad Government

Editorials
    There’s one thing proponents of open government can count on a few months before a long (90-day) session of the state legislature. Some...

Possible Active Shooter Response Plans Need Work

Editorials
    It’s illustrative that the “threatened shooting” at Española Valley High School revealed a large hole in the school’s and law enforcement’s response plans...

Better Late, Than Never Doesn’t Apply

Editorials
    It’s about time.     That’s about all anyone can say about Rio Arriba County Commissioner Barney Trujillo’s Sept. 5 indictment and Sept. 6 charges...

School Board Chose Wrong Applicant

Editorials
    The Española School District Board took a giant step backward Monday night as it appointed city council retread Cory Lewis to fill the...

Straight Party Voting Discourages Thinking

Editorials
    We supported Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver when she ran for office in 2014. She ran a “let’s clean house” sort of...

Draconian Co-op Policy Par for the Course

Editorials
    The Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative Board of Trustees erected another barrier to transparency Aug. 24 with its passage of Board Policy 150, which...

LANL Coalition Remains Huge Taxpayer Waste

Editorials
    We’ve kept silent regarding the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities and its sorry story of misspending, deceit and exposure. However, with the recent...

Active Nation Members Will Make a Difference

Editorials
    The Apache Nation, Dulce School District and Apache Nugget Casino, all synonymous, are finally having a spotlight focused on them. This, thanks to...

If the Monsoons Don’t Get Us, the Decline of Proper English Will

Columnists
I fought the urge all through July. It was surely coming, it does every July, sometimes even as early as June. “Meteorologists” and tired...
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