Editorials

New City Police ChiefAlready Here

Mayor Alice Lucero Paseo de Oñate Española, N.M. Mayor;     We assume by now you’ve received Rio Arriba County Sheriff Tommy Rodella’s application for the city police chief...

State Police SecrecyMust Be Challenged

    We never thought we would write: we miss Gordon Eden as New Mexico cabinet secretary for State Police. Eden left the state political...

Let’s Wait for Facts

    A teenager being shot and killed by an Española City police officer is truly tragic. It’s also polarizing, emotionally charged and brings out...

County Clerk Lacking

    Election night, June 6, we became so bored waiting for the Rio Arriba County Clerks Office to get its act together we started...

Maybe Espanola DodgedThe Proverbial Bullet

    The events surrounding what our mayor is calling “negotiations” with city manager candidate Timothy Dodge over the past three weeks border on surreal.    ...

Northern Wants to DecideWhat Free Speech Is

    Surely everyone is for students, teachers and administrators exercising Respectful Campus and Freedom of Expression and Dissent protocols. We’re adults, right? We all...

Charter School Squatting

    When a landlord is fed up with renters or needs the premises vacated for other reasons, the landlord give sthe tenants notice. State...

Victim Didn’t Get Justice

    It’s understandable that judges are saddled (or blessed) with the yoke of minimum and maximum punishments to be meted out to those convicted...

School Board ConfabWas Clearly Secret

    The blatant disregard Española School Board members show for the public process is shameful at best and clearly illegal in the extreme. They...

Don’t Stop CommissionersFrom Cleaning House

    The recent dust up between Public Regulation Commissioners Valerie Espinoza, D-Santa Fe, and Ben Hall, R-Ruidoso, trying to bring the rest of the...

Give, Think Locally First

    Give Grande New Mexico holds its inaugural online fundraiser May 6 and we’re hoping it will be huge. If you read Tom McDonald’s...

Yes A Sewer Plant

    There’s more than a few people around Rio Arriba County scratching their heads wondering how the County decided to seek funding for a...

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