Editorials

Meeting of MindsMay Smooth P&Z Meetings

    We suggest the city of Española’s Planning and Zoning Department have a sit down with the Planning and Zoning Commission regarding applications for...

Thanks for Help

   I have been compelled to put down these thoughts for some time. Then came the article last week which was so beautiful.     I...

Focus on Academics

    Once upon a time, you went to school, took the classes school advisors told you to take, passed tests in each class and...

New Mexico Must BanTexting While Driving

    In early January columnist Ned Cantwell wrote about a texting while driving bill that failed on a senate floor vote last legislative session....

Planning & Zoning Department,Commission Had it Right

    Española and Rio Arriba County desperately need economic development. The abandoned buildings and dearth of up-to-code, safe and comfortable properties inside the city...

Participate in Process;Write to Election Bureau

    Seriously? Is everyone going to sit back and watch Wray Ortiz run for city council?     Oritz filed for the District 2 city council...

Increasing Gross Receipts TaxIs Just Piling on

    Will the real state Sen. Richard Martinez, please stand up?     Martinez dug his heels in a month ago stating he would not sponsor...

Velarde DeservesDirection on Elementary

    Taxpayers in general and Velarde residents specifically deserve answers regarding their elementary school.     The Española School Board for at least a decade has...

Legislative Wish List

    Grab your wallets and grit your teeth. The legislature cranks up Tuesday and as usual everyone and their uncle will be jockeying, manipulating,...

Competition Will Be Missed

    When Albuquerque Journal Managing Editor Karen Moses told us a month ago its Santa Fe publication, Journal North, was going to go in...

Northern Must Improve

    Northern New Mexico College regents got an earful from state Secretary of Higher Education José Garcia just as school ended for Christmas break....

McCurdy LeadershipRequires Scrutiny

    When McCurdy School became McCurdy Charter School we all expected some bumps in the road, little problems and growing pains. The traffic jams...

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