Editorials

Production of Public RecordsNot An Enterprise Fund

    The more things change the more they stay the same.  So said French novelist Alphonse Karr (1808-1890). That’s the situation with the never-ending...

Superintendent Search ReallyDog and Pony Show by Board

    The Espanola School Board’s long, pathetic, painful charade is at an end. They’ve finally come out of the dark and officially given the...

Too Few Deputies OrToo Much Posturing?

    There’s a billboard along Interstate 25 acting as an oversized help-wanted ad for the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department.     We might need one of...

Budget Savings? Start with Spokesmen

    Gov. Susan Martinez owes a letter of thank you to Rio Grande SUN reporter Andrew Kasper. Kasper, after many painful attempts to get...

United Way Los Alamos-Based, Rio Arriba County Supportive

United Way of Northern New Mexico funnels almost $500,000 to Rio Arriba County non-profits annually. Most of the $865,000 raised through designations or to...

Be A Patriot; CelebrateThe Fourth without Pyrotechnics

    The traditional day to celebrate our independence from England approaches and with it some serious and fact-based fears about fires.     We’ve all been...

Onate Center Boondoggle

    A modicum of reason overcame the Rio Arriba County Commission June 15 when it agreed to close the Oñate Center in Alcalde.     Or...

Jemez Co-op ManagerSafe Following Election

    Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative members in the Pojoaque area finally ended Manuel Garcia’s term on that Board. The 37-year Board member was one...

State Should FundReturn Trip for OMI

    This recession most of us are suffering has forced the state Office of Medical Investigators to implement drastic measures to meet next fiscal...

McCurdy Endures,Much Like Job

McCurdy School Superintendent Patsy Alvarado’s reaction to someone throwing not one but two gasoline bombs through the first grade windows Friday and Saturday night...

Jemez Co-op ElectionsAll About the Manager

    This year’s Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative elections have nothing to do with the candidates themselves. It’s all about which Board member will vote...

Paying School Board Members’Legal Bill Not Ethical

    Teachers, union representatives, parents and voters want more money spent in the classroom and less in administration. It’s the same story all over...

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