Opinion

Support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

    About 30 community members recently attended a community conversation about early childhood at Northern New Mexico College, which was presented by the New...

School Board Chose Wrong Applicant

    The Española School District Board took a giant step backward Monday night as it appointed city council retread Cory Lewis to fill the...

Straight Party Voting Discourages Thinking

    We supported Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver when she ran for office in 2014. She ran a “let’s clean house” sort of...

Hold Los Alamos County Responsible

    In an upcoming Sept. 6 special Los Alamos County Council meeting, we can expect the County and its elected officials to shift blame...

Draconian Co-op Policy Par for the Course

    The Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative Board of Trustees erected another barrier to transparency Aug. 24 with its passage of Board Policy 150, which...

Pearce’s Party, History Say It All

    U.S. Representative Steve Pearce, seeking to be our governor, is running a series of populist media messages. They sound good. But they provide...

Appreciates Bosque Cleanup

Editor:     We would like to thank everyone who participated in the Aug. 4 community cleanup of the bosque.     A special thanks to Española Police...

LANL Coalition Remains Huge Taxpayer Waste

    We’ve kept silent regarding the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities and its sorry story of misspending, deceit and exposure. However, with the recent...

Thank You, Library Staff

    I want to give a big “thank you” to the Española Public Library staff. They did an excellent job this summer providing many...

Active Nation Members Will Make a Difference

    The Apache Nation, Dulce School District and Apache Nugget Casino, all synonymous, are finally having a spotlight focused on them. This, thanks to...

If the Monsoons Don’t Get Us, the Decline of Proper English Will

I fought the urge all through July. It was surely coming, it does every July, sometimes even as early as June. “Meteorologists” and tired...

Tread Lightly with Planned Parenthood

    Española School District Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez is preparing to jump into what professional wrestlers like to call a Battle Royale. Gutierrez is setting...

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