Editorials

Basketball Coach Gone But At What Cost

    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

    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

    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

    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

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

City Must Consider All Aspects of Street Vendors

    A dinner table discussion and the Española Planning and Zoning Commission’s desire to better regulate street vendors has us again thinking about how...

Transit District Must Be Open on Tax Sunsets

    We acknowledge the North Central Regional Transit District Board has two of the best legal minds in the state working for them, but...

Freshman Should Know Graduation Requirements

    We hope parents of any student in, or approaching, high school read last week’s story in the Rio Grande SUN about graduation requirements...

Northern Audit Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

    The release Monday of Northern New Mexico College’s 2016 audit almost makes the $200,000 theft a minor part of an institution’s total lack...

We Don’t Need Guidelines; There Are State Laws

    Leave it to the E911 Board to take two simple state laws, such as the Inspection of Public Records Act and the Open...

Music Man Leading City To False Economic Hope

    It would be nice if Albuquerque developer Joshua Skarsgard, aka The Music Man, would recruit a few small retailers that would provide some...

Sunshine Week Was A Little Cloudy

    Media organizations, grassroots activists, many non-profits and some hardy citizens celebrated openness in government last week.     Sunshine week (March 12-18) has become a...

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