Editorials

Everyone Must get on the K-6 Plus Train

    School administrators, teachers, parents and students must wrap their collective heads around the state’s new K-6 Plus program. It’s coming whether any of...

Electronic Device Ban in Gallery Goes Too Far

    One would assume (wrongly) that our state legislators are too busy with important, meaningful business during a short, 30-day session to tangle with...

Pet Food Fee Could Address Many Stray Animal Issues

    The legislature has again taken up the issue of taxing pet food to create a fund to help pay for spays and neuters...

Reporter’s Ouster Black Eye for Senate

    Everything about the legislative session should be public. Public officials go into public meetings to carry out the public’s business. Yet secrecy still...

Giving All Cops Raises Sends Wrong Message

    Española Mayor Javier Sanchez and the entire city council agree on two things:     • The city’s police department has big problems, which some...

Big State Settlements Must Be Open to Public

    When Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham took office, rocks were turned over and seedy details of settlement agreements through the state’s Risk Management Division...

Save Poorly Saving Citizens from Themselves

    In a Sunday Albuquerque Journal guest column, Think New Mexico Executive Director Fred Nathan painted a bleak picture of New Mexicans’ saving habits...

Mayor, Seize This Teachable Moment

    Readers may recall we were leery in summer 2019 of Española Mayor Javier Sanchez’s appointment of Roger Jimenez to be the city police...

Politicians Must Stop Guessing Intent of ‘The Framers’

Those brave souls who followed the U.S. Senate impeachment hearings subjected themselves to hours of pontification from the right and left and received a...

Account for Education Spending Before Lavishing More Blanket Raises

    You can predict it like a Valley shower following a thunderstorm forming over the Jemez Mountains. When there’s a state budget surplus, teacher...

Co-op Board Cowers in Closed Session

    Human beings do things in secret when they’re ashamed or fearful. Such was the Jan. 10 vote taken by the Jemez Mountains Electric...

Students Now Have an Advocate on Lottery Board

    The New Mexico Lottery Board now has a champion for the students. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham at the end of December appointed Othiamba...

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