Opinion

Superintendent’s Evaluation CriteriaShould Be Decided in Public

    We’re not sure why the Española School Board doesn’t understand how to conduct a legal meeting. It’s pretty simple actually.     New Mexico’s Open...

Who Wrote Affordable Care Act?

   Not Obama’s fault? (Rio Grande SUN, letters, Nov. 22, 2013, page A7)     And he didn’t know what was in the bill when he...

Elected Officials’ RaisesUnwarranted, Wasteful

    Rio Arriba County Commissioners are not shy about one thing: giving the faithful a raise. The dust had barely settled from the Erika...

Not Obama’s Fault

Editor:     All the blame for cancellation of individual insurance policies is falling on President Barrack Obama.     The fact is that he didn’t write the...

Obamacare ReplacesCounty-funded Indigent Care

    Google Obamacare or Affordable Care Act and you’ll find more articles arguing the pros and cons with misinformation than you’ll find facts. There’s...

Need Genuine Leaders

   “We did not give her a raise” and “This is not a raise that we gave” is how commissioners Barney Trujillo and Danny...

Don’t Fall for a Pretty Face

   I garnered from past editions that the Rio Arriba County commissioners voted in favor of a raise for public information officer Erika Martinez...

Preserving Railroad History

Editor:     I am a railroad historian who is seeking information on section foremen who served from 1887 to 1968 for the Denver and Rio...

Get Facts about Abortion

  There is a very powerful but very distorted television ad that reaches and affects our community. The ad concerns the upcoming election in...

NetRoots Training Came in Handy

   I just read the story how Rio Arriba County has a major funding deficit that will not allow them to give pay raises,...

Not a Susana Supporter

  Gov. Susana Martinez’s focus when she first took office was to undo many of the things her predecessor Bill Richardson had accomplished. As...

Can We Do WorseThan Last Place?

 It must be frustrating for parents to vote for elected officials that promise to improve education, change teacher evaluations, reform laws to strengthen the...

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