Editorials

In Redistricting Spin, Rural Areas Always Lose

    Let the battle commence. Population numbers from the 2020 Census were released last week and Democrats and Republicans began plotting (that is the...

Don’t Overreact, Española; Let’s Be Better

    The city of Española and its inhabitants don’t really need defending from a remark made by Taylor Locker, who was the Republican party’s...

Fining Gas Stations Won’t Address DWI

By the end of the decade the experts predict that electric vehicles will command a significant portion of the market, if not the vast...

4-H Teaches Youth Responsibility While Having Fun

    Responsibility and money management, that’s what Hernandez mother Mariaelena Jaramillo said she hoped her son would learn through buying, raising and selling a...

Space Is Great, But What A Waste

    All this billionaire space flight is dizzying. What it all has to do with we mere mortals remains to be seen.     Here’s something...

Jemez Co-op Elections Offer Interesting Choices

    We’re halfway through the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative elections. The first three races were uncontested. This means Co-op members kept Dennis Trujillo and...

Try Science When Considering the Vaccine

    As the population returns to its new normal, the issue of getting vaccinated will come more into focus.     Eventually governments, businesses, universities, social...

Councilors Can Pout after Doing Their Job

    We’ve all lost our cool. Even the most level-headed, unemotional human beings lose their temper occasionally. When that happens most of us do...

Messed Up

Editor:     I don’t know about you, but I have a list of popular American traditions I think are messed up.     How about Friday night...

Good Cops Come from Good Training, Leadership

    Ah to be young and naive again. You have to love the letters from McCurdy fifth-graders on page A7. They’re great.     If you...

Tierra Amarilla Deserves Better

    As a lifetime resident of Rio Arriba County I am appalled by our County leaders.     I don’t know if you have ever been...

The People’s Courts Should Be Fully Open Now

    It was heartening to read Albuquerque Metro Court Chief Judge Maria Dominguez’s June 4 column in the Albuquerque Journal.     In the column she...

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