Opinion

County Commission Should Be Expanded to Five Members

    The Rio Arriba County Commission should be expanded to five members.     Having worked with both Taos and Grant Counties, which both have five...

President Should Prioritize Dreamers

    Last week, President Joe Biden delivered his first national address.     While the country tuned in for his remarks, I was listening for one...

Nothing Proper about County Manager Hire

    It feels like Rio Arriba County Commissioners James Martinez and Moises Morales sat down and worked out the worst way possible to replace...

Backroom County Deals Disgraceful

    I had made a follow up meeting with Rio Arriba County Manager Tomas Campos and Economic Development Director Chris Madrid at 11:30 a.m.,...

State Auditor Lauds School District

    The Rio Grande SUN reported on the much-improved audit of the Espanola School District for Fiscal Year 2020 (“District Much Improved,” April 23,...

Friends of Library Open Again

    It has been over a year since the Friends of the Española Public Library closed its bookstore at the Lucero Center in response...

More Class Time with Same Lack of Learning?

    An honest and detailed conversation must take place within every school district in our readership area. Parents, teachers and taxpayers interested in how...

State Deserves Better at Labor Department Helm

    If you Google “bad to worse,” you’ll find a picture of former New Mexico Labor Department secretary Bill McCamley with an ‘X’ over...

New City OHV Ordinance Doesn’t Address Abusers

    Anyone listening to the public hearing during the April 13 Española City Council heard some upstanding, positive, very community-minded folks testify about all...

Try Natural Cleaners

    With mass media conditioning driving the global health epidemic, your article “Try Spring Cleaning Using Natural Products” of 4/8/21 by Joy Czmyrid was...

Old White Men Painted with Broad Brush

    Tom McDonald’s self-righteous column about “older white men” in the April 15 issue of the Rio Grande SUN is as fine an example...

Jemez Co-op Personnel Prove to Be Slow Learners

    A reasonable person listens to a District Court judge when he issues an order from the bench. Once you’ve been dragged through depositions,...

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