Opinion

Pet Food Fee Could Address Many Stray Animal Issues

    The legislature has again taken up the issue of taxing pet food to create a fund to help pay for spays and neuters...

Reporter’s Ouster Black Eye for Senate

    Everything about the legislative session should be public. Public officials go into public meetings to carry out the public’s business. Yet secrecy still...

President’s Fantasy Speech Encourages Activist to Work Even Harder

I accepted an invitation by U.S. Congressman Ben Ray Lujan to attend the State of the Union address to Congress in Washington, D.C. I...

Giving All Cops Raises Sends Wrong Message

    Española Mayor Javier Sanchez and the entire city council agree on two things:     • The city’s police department has big problems, which some...

Bill to Remove Guns from Homes Unconstitutional

Editor:     In the hands of the wrong person, a firearm can be a dangerous weapon. Such persons should not possess firearms. If a crime...

Big State Settlements Must Be Open to Public

    When Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham took office, rocks were turned over and seedy details of settlement agreements through the state’s Risk Management Division...

Bring Back Kaiper

    Ms. Ellen Kaiper’s video class at Española Valley High School was taken from her this year. She was told that the administration wanted...

Save Poorly Saving Citizens from Themselves

    In a Sunday Albuquerque Journal guest column, Think New Mexico Executive Director Fred Nathan painted a bleak picture of New Mexicans’ saving habits...

Mayor, Seize This Teachable Moment

    Readers may recall we were leery in summer 2019 of Española Mayor Javier Sanchez’s appointment of Roger Jimenez to be the city police...

Politicians Must Stop Guessing Intent of ‘The Framers’

Those brave souls who followed the U.S. Senate impeachment hearings subjected themselves to hours of pontification from the right and left and received a...

Compost, Don’t Incinerate

Editor:     I would like to know why the North Central Solid Waste Authority is burning perfectly good organic matter (Rio Grande SUN, Trash Authority...

Account for Education Spending Before Lavishing More Blanket Raises

    You can predict it like a Valley shower following a thunderstorm forming over the Jemez Mountains. When there’s a state budget surplus, teacher...

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