Opinion

SUN Perfectly Suited to Community

Editor:     I recently did two significant things: 1) bought a huge (.17 acre) lot in your area and 2) subscribed to the Rio Grande...

Applications Public

    The city of Farmington did informed citizens a great favor when it appealed its District court loss to the Farmington Daily Times. The...

Emission Standards Good Start

Editor:     The new emission standards represent the type of bold action President Obama promised the American people and demonstrate how the president is following...

Jack Daniels Plus ArchitectEquals New P.O. Parking Lot

    We’ve got this nice shiny new post office in Española and I haven’t heard a good thing about it yet.     It’s too small....

Learning to Grab FederalStimulus Funds A Job in Itself

    What dry government gathering has lately packed meeting rooms around the state with eager attendees?     It was the state’s briefings to coach local...

Can’t Spend $150,000

    The Española Valley suffers from terrible drug and alcohol problems. Along with that comes the juvenile delinquents who like to refer to themselves...

Kudos for Artist’s Work with Youth

 I attended a presentation May 8 at San Juan Elementary that was directed by Roger Montoya. Roger is a very dear neighbor of mine...

Set Ordinance, Then Follow It

    One of the things we were promised when Española Mayor Joseph Maestas and his administration took over was a better-run city hall. That...

Nascar Driving at the New Post Office

Editor:     I would like to comment on the new Española post office. For the past many months, construction on the new place has been...

Drugs Don’t Replace Guards

This is in regard to the article about prescription medications that inmates take while in the Rio Arriba County jail. I am a former...

Study Community Needs, Then Spend Money Fairly

    While reading the Sun May 7, I learned that the three county commissioners had provided new community centers in each of their home...

Highway Department Sunshine?

    This from a lovely piece of misleading bureaucratese published in the Albuquerque Journal’s May 17 edition: “We have made every effort to work...

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Northern Briefs 8/20/26