Opinion

Manage Jail or Close It

Editorials
    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

Letters To Editor
   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

Editorials
    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

Editorials
    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

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

Higher Ed Realignment Tough Pill to Swallow

Editorials
    It’s a simple case of supply versus demand. There are too many colleges and universities for too few students. That Economics 101 lesson...

Police Chief’s Behavior Must Be Addressed

Editorials
    Española City Police Chief Matthew Vigil has much bigger problems than the Rio Grande SUN writing about his repeated bad behavior. His response,...

How Many Tired Retreads Headed to School District?

Editorials
    We shouldn’t be surprised after the hand-picked hiring of Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez, that she would begin to populate her administration with former supporters...

Fiesta Council Needs Fresh Start, New Blood

Editorials
    The Oñate Fiesta should have all the drama and pageantry of Don Juan de Oñate’s entrance into what would become the Española Valley....

Secretary of State Works on Campaign Finance Reform

Editorials
    Politicians doing what they promised? Is the apocalypse near?     Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver proposed rule changes earlier this month that would...

Finding Lost Hikers Part of State Police’s Job

Editorials
    Full disclosure: New Mexico State Police Chief Pete Kassetas is not one of our favorite people. He lords over a clandestine organization that...

We Could Try Listening to Each Other

Editorials
    How do you begin a healing conversation after five innocent people are shot and killed in small communities throughout our readership area? The...
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