Opinion

Single-Payer Healthcare the Way to Go

We are enclosing the transcript of Bill Moyers’ May 22 program regarding the health care fiasco in our country, and our increasing inability to...

Government Employees ShouldTake Hit for the Team Too

    During the 2009 legislative session, New Mexico policy makers faced some of the most challenging budgetary times in recent memory. That fact led...

Akal Should Put Up

Akal Security has hired people in this area for decades to help grow the company into a national company. What does it give back...

Please, No Public Input

    Did city of Española officials want public input before passing the cell phone ordinance?     Last week city officials danced around whether proper notification...

Responsible Teenagers

 I live in Velarde on County Road 41. The road makes a 90 degree turn just as it approaches my property. Many times vehicles...

It’s Not Me

Recently a person employed by the city of Española, with a name similar to mine, has appeared in series of articles in the Rio...

Jemez Elections Quiet

    It’s a little difficult to get excited about the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative elections. On one side you’ve got the incumbents, the old...

Buddy System Best WhenHiking in Wilderness

    We love our beautiful, wild scenery in New Mexico, but we forget that those picture postcard settings can be deadly.     In the latest...

Excellent Blade Work

The road graders for county road 158 and 155 do a terrific job on our roads. Pls they are there on a regualr basis....

It’s the Joe Maestas Show!

    Española Mayor Joseph Maestas can get on the local radio station and say just about anything he likes about the Rio Grande SUN,...

Will Cook Pay Fine?

 Once again, Richard Cook is in violation of a mining permit. He has failed to reclaim a pumice mine in the Jemez Mountains which...

Thanks for Help Following Fire

   I’m writing to thank all those people who gave us a lot of help when our house burned down March 2.     Thanks to...

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