Opinion

Fate Has a Way of Connecting the Dots

Fate takes you places where your memory wants to reveal itself. Like a petulant child, the amalgam of your thoughts and memories draw distinct...

Guest Opinon: Fire and Water, Ruidoso and Vegas

Ruidoso and Las Vegas are two very different communities, but when it comes to environmental disasters, they’re topping the charts these days. Ruidoso just experienced...

Have Some Compassion, Will You? 7/17/25

Fellow Compassionators.  I learned something recently and I’m overwhelmingly impelled to share it with all of you.  I am not formally educated in the intricacies of...

Guest opinion: Divisions Among Us

Many battles have been fought and are now history. Our Congress has decided in favor of President Trump and his reconciliation bill and he...

Council Needs to Call a Meeting

Editor’s note: This was sent to the Española City Council before being submitted for publication in the Rio Grande SUN.   Ladies and Gentlemen, I am imploring...

Living Day-to-Day With a ‘Busload of Faith’

A friend who wrote searing, sometimes grisly Facebook posts as he dug out from Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic destruction around Asheville, N.C. last autumn took...

Guest Opinion: Let Heroes Be Heroes

Last week, I stood in the smoke-shadowed foothills near the Gila, watching the Hotshot crews return from another 16-hour shift fighting the Trout Fire....

Do the Right Thing and Step Aside, Mayor

I saw in the Santa Fe New Mexican this morning that they had mistakenly said I called for the Mayor’s resignation. While I hadn’t...

Elected Officials Have 2 Options

This weekend, friends and I got to camp, eat, and experience the truth of country music. We heard verses like “my heart skips just...

Guest opinion: Arizona Policy Runs Circles Around N.M.

Recently, a group of business and economic leaders traveled to Phoenix to get some ideas on why the Phoenix economy is so much stronger...

The World is on Fire in 2025

The United States has been at war off and on for a quarter century. It feels like forever. Now we appear on the verge of...

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