Opinion

Thanks and Please Come Help

    We at the Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association are most grateful for the Rio Grande Sun’s story this past week about our efforts to...

A Better-operated County Would Relieve Tax Burden

    Rio Arriba County Commissioner Alex Naranjo said a mouthful when during an April budget meeting he dressed down County department heads and other...

Establish Committee for Cleaner Election

    I was one of the members who attended the first meeting of the new Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative Board of Trustees a little...

Bee a Pollinator Supporter

    Saturday is National Honey Bee Day, a day to celebrate one of the most important and widespread pollinators of our food and flowers....

City Needs Refund on Arts Center Contract

    It appears Northern New Mexico Regional Arts Center Executive Director John Werenko will leave his current job, much the same way he left...

E911 Board Must Learn from Its Mistakes

    Look hard. You won’t find a better example of a dysfunctional group of leaders than the ever-changing E911 Board. It’s composed of law...

Upward Bound Grant Huge Opportunity

    Big money. Tall order. Tough task. No plan.     Northern New Mexico College won a five-year, $1.2 million grant to aid 60 Española Valley...

Manage Jail or Close It

    Rio Arriba County Commissioners must get serious about addressing problems at their jail in Tierra Amarilla. We state “their jail,” because commissioners are...

A Tweet Is Not an Order

   Everyone is in a tizzy about Donald Trump’s tweet banning transgender Americans from serving in our armed forces. Since when is a tweet...

Co-op Should Clarify Bylaws, Policies

    As sketchy as Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative board elections are, you’d think the by-laws and policies and procedures would address a candidate’s concerns...

Elected officials Owe Service to Taxpayers

    Let’s add this to our list of “legal but just not right.”     The Rio Arriba County Treasurer’s Office closed three times in as...

Jemez Should Get out of Tri-State Contract

   Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative and 10 other New Mexico rural electric cooperatives in 1994 entered into longterm contracts with Tri-State Generation and Transmission...

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