Robert Trapp

Scholarship Fund Torpedoed by Legislature

Editorials
    The Lottery Scholarship fund was torpedoed during the three-day special session. The fund had been propped up annually using the state liquor tax,...

Suicide Discussion Better Than Ignoring the Problem

Editorials
    Suicide is a touchy subject to most, taboo to many and when the deceased was a close friend or family member, downright off...

Discover Your Rural Libraries Weekly

Editorials
    We’re cruising Rio Arriba County this summer, bringing you the latest events, success stories and needs in your rural libraries. The official consortium...

Piling on Gross Receipts Taxes Not the Answer

Editorials
    New Mexico must get its act together when it comes to gross receipts taxes. The multitude exemptions, the overlaying of county upon city...

City Parks Budget Supplemented By Financial Institutions

Editorials
    It’s well established, as we enter this torturous budget season, that all local governments will have a tough time keeping the lights on....

Public Superintendent Search

Editorials
    The Española School Board and interim superintendent Denise Johnston are off to a rocky start but we do have a list of superintendent...

Basketball Coach Gone But At What Cost

Editorials
    Former Española Valley High School basketball coach Richard Martinez must be feeling like President Richard Nixon when in 1962 he said, “You won’t...

State Police Continues Its Clandestine Ways

Editorials
    The New Mexico State Police just doesn’t care about the way society functions outside its little fiefdom.     Its inability to play well with...

Tough Area Budgets Means Fewer Services

Editorials
    It’s May and that means every governmental entity is grinding away at an attempted budget. This may be the toughest year ever to...

New Chief Choice Puts Us at Mayor’s Mercy

Editorials
    Next! It’s either that or, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”     Española Police Chief Richard Gallegos’s announcement Monday that he...

Superintendent Comes out Big Winner

Editorials
    Yes, former Española School District superintendent Eric Martinez needed to be removed from that position. However, we have to question the school Board’s...

Valley Business Giant Dies at 91

Obituaries
By Robert Trapp SUN Publisher     Richard P. Cook, described as an entrepreneur, shrewd businessman and the largest individual employer in Rio Arriba County died Monday, ...
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