Opinion

Everybody Has a Voice

    Andrew Chavez has to be one of those guys that can fall backwards into cow chips and stand up smelling like roses. For...

Some Opinions Don’t Count

  I have read about the problems facing the school system. As an educational reformer and a member of a family of generations of...

Lady Lobos Played Hard

   I write in reference to a letter to the editor by Antonio Martinez (Rio Grande SUN, March 3, 2011, Bad Referee Cost Game,...

Journalism Class Going Strong

 I am pleased to inform you  the Mesa Vista Middle and High school has had a journalism class for three, count them, three consecutive...

Keep Rural Bus Service

  As paychecks shrink because the price of gasoline is increasing on an almost daily basis, the Rural Transit Department’s buses have become even...

Congratulations, Sundevils

    On behalf of the Greater Española Valley Community Development Corporation, I would like to pledge our full support for the retirement of jersey...

Old Neighbors Versus Good Neighbors

  Throw a dart at a map of the San Juan Basin here in Rio Arriba County and you’d likely hit our ranch, if...

Mesa Vista Journalism StudentsCelebrate Scholastic Journalism Week

 Editor:     I am writing this letter for Scholastic Journalism Week. The school journalism class is important to me, as well as others in the...

Keep Those Letters,Blood Flowing to Us

A huge thank you and kudos to the 40 people who came to the United Blood Services van March 11 and gave (or tried...

Celebrate Public Access

   (Editor's note: This editorial  is a corrected version of the print edition. Cox lost in state district court making him the appellant, not...

Thanks, Samaritans

   I am writing in recognition of five very good Samaritans. Unfortunately, I did not get their names.  I work in Los Alamos at...

Health Statistic Paint BleakPicture of Life in Rio Arriba

    The state Health Department released morbidity statistics, lagging behind a critical time line. The statistics, reflecting 2007, ‘08 and ‘09, show Rio Arriba...

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