Opinion

Challenge Forest ServiceTo Open Access

    The U.S. Forest Service in Northern New Mexico has recently allowed the closure of many of the roads that access Forest Service lands....

Jail Guards, Drugs Don’t Mix

    Rio Arriba County jail guards distributing medication? What could go wrong?     In a collapse of negotiations with Roadrunner Health Services March 14, jail...

Thanks, Highway Department

   I rode my bike March 17 through the busy intersection of US 285 where it intersects with NM 399/106 just south of Española.    ...

Barney for Vice PresidentOf the United States

    District 40 is currently represented by Nick  Salazar, and has been for 43 years. He is challenged in the primary by a fellow...

Great Job, Sundevils

Editor:     Great job, Sundevils. We are proud of your state championship victory. Great game, exciting and always fun to watch the Sundevils play.     Congratulations...

Be Proud, Sundevils

    Thank you, coach (Richard) Martinez.     Española won the state blue. Our congratulations to you and the boys for playing hard and remembering that...

Nick Represents Constituents

Editor:     I ask my neighbors to join me in supporting Democratic Representative Nick Salazar for re-election.     In more than 33 years working with Nick,...

Grateful for Nursing Home

   I couldn’t help but notice the ad placed by lawyers wishing to make money by suing the Española Valley Nursing Home. I wish...

Stop Picking on Bernie

Editor:     I’m writing about your story “Trash Authority Hires Ex-Director” (Rio Grande SUN, Feb. 25, 2016, page A1).     I’m not sure what my husband...

Voters Given Thin PoolOf City Council Candidates

    The 99.9 percent of Española’s voting population who chose to stay home Saturday night instead of “learning” what city council candidates had in...

Tierra Amarilla DeservesBetter Trash Equipment

   What has happened at the North Central Solid Waste Authority?  Our fees have gone up, trips to the transfer station have gone down...

Gifting Tree Successful

Editor:     The past five years the International Guards Union Of America, Local 69  in Los Alamos has reached out to the Community of Española...

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