Editorials

Love It or Hate It, Legal Pot Is Here

    Whether we’re ready for it or not, legal marijuana for adult recreational use is coming to New Mexico.     Almost three-fourths of New Mexicans...

Accountability in Pork Spending a Good Start

    Think New Mexico and the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government scored a huge win for the taxpaying public last week with the...

Bite the Bullet; Let’s Talk about Oñate

    It’s been almost a year since various and sundry far left groups went to war with statues all over the country. Anyone counting...

Cost of Sick Leave Must Come from Somewhere

    It feels like supporters of New Mexico’s Healthy Workplaces Act are living in a different world, have no idea what it’s like to...

Fast Payoff in Teaching Teens Financial Responsibility

    We’re individuals, human beings, unique and each beholden to our nature.     Therapists and psychologists say most couples fight over money and sex. Sex...

Redistricting Can Be Done Fairly, Correctly

    Reluctantly, painfully, every 10 years we suffer through politicians, lawyers and ultimately judge(s) deciding political election boundaries for house and senate seats and...

Two Counties, One City

    If you’re a restaurateur in Española, you’re either elated or furious. Consider Mayor Javier Sanchez, working to keep La Cocina operating, employees employed...

Administrators Must Coax Teachers Back

     We’re at an important juncture regarding the education of the New Mexico's children. It’s early in the semester, we’re administering vaccines at a...

Let’s See a Plan Before We Write a Check

    We’d like to think that before legislators get all fired up about throwing money at education, some common sense enters the equation and...

What’s the Holdup Guv.?

    Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham needs to pull the trigger and appoint a commissioner for Rio Arriba County District 2. We hope as you...

Bus Cameras Good Idea and We Have the Bucks

    Española School District Transportation Director Tito Ortiz floated the idea at the School Board’s Jan. 21 meeting of installing security cameras in all...

District 2 Congresswoman Just Doing Her Job

    “Woe unto them that call evil good, And good evil; That change darkness into light, And light into darkness; That change bitter into...

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