Robert Trapp

Gutted Whistleblower Act Leaves Employees Helpless

    When an employee seeks to correct immoral, corrupt or simply poor management, the Whistleblower Protection Act is the employee’s best friend. In its...

City Police Department Must Address Behavior Issues

    If you drive the streets of Española, be sure to read Rio Grande SUN Staff Writer Wheeler Cowperthwaite’s story on page B1 regarding...

Bullying Journalists the Opposite of Patriotic

After reading Santa Fe New Mexican columnist Milan Simonich’s retelling of state Representative Bob Wooley’s tirade over a journalist not standing during the pledge...

School Board Endorsements

    Española School District voters in districts 2 and 3 have a responsibility to place two people on the school Board who can help...

Research Pot Implications to State’s Services, Infrastructure

    Recreational pot users, please take a hit, lean back and chillax while reading this. Straight-laced, “squares,” please apply your common sense and judgment,...

Band Aids Worn off Lottery Scholarship Fund

    It would be nice if everyone got a shot at college. However, not everyone is college material. Some of us wander for a...

Attorney General Owes District Voters an Explanation

    Española School District residents, voters, parents, teachers and students would like to know what is going on with the District’s administration. But with...

Elected Officials after Your Money Again

    The New Mexico legislative session is underway and as Tom McDonald stated in his column last week, “Hold on to your wallets.” Legislators...

Suicide Deaths Must Be Discussed, Examined

    With the suicide death of Franklin Martinez reported in the Jan. 5 issue of the Rio Grande SUN and the subsequent letter questioning...

WWII Plane Flying High Again

It was highly ironic and a little disconcerting to have flight engineer Konrad Werner assist in getting nine media visitors into a 1945 B-17...

Sign of the Times

    We must be better, We must do better and we must rise above the noise and obfuscation of petty politics exercised by small...

Sovereign, Yes, But Consider Your Neighbors

    It’s good to have a little star power on your side. This wasn’t the case Sunday when Robert Redford wrote a column for...

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