Opinion

County Commissioners Must Address Jail Issues

    Rio Arriba County officials may want to sit up and take notice of Nathanael King’s front page story this week about Syndicato Nuevo...

Non-profits Play Lodgers Tax Shell Game

    Rio Arriba County’s lodgers tax granting is an annual political football. Disbursements have little connection to merit.     The tax is collected from hotels...

Making Espanola Proud Every Day

    No New Mexico politician, at any level, did as much for Española than Roger Montoya did Sunday night. His brief but poignant speech...

Public School Must Find the Sunshine

    Unless you were a fly on the wall at past board meetings, or good friends or family of a board member, you’re not...

EPA Must Finish Superfund Site Cleanup

    The federal Environmental Protection Agency gave Españolans a new definition of, “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.” We also have...

Lottery Director Again after Students’ Money

    The gall, the nerve, the absolute impudence of New Mexico Lottery Authority Executive Director David Barden to ask the state Legislative Finance Committee...

Consider Population in New Senator Appointment

    The 2020 Legislative session starts in nine weeks and it is a budget session. I would like to be represented by someone ready...

Association Backs La Tierra

    The executive committee of the La Tierra Montessori School of the Arts Parent Teacher Association would like to express our continued strong support...

State Must Heed Constitutional Right

    Access to a legal medical procedure – abortion - is significantly unavailable in New Mexico’s rural areas. This is unconstitutional discrimination against women....

Thanks to Friends of the LIbrary

    There is a wonderful book store hidden in the city of Española. The diversity of books is overwhelming. The price so understanding for...

Reporting News Not for the Faint of Heart

    As politicians, talking heads and mixed media continue to pronounce newspapers dead, a student newspaper at Northwestern University in Illinois tried to push...

Nothing Ethical about Trapping

   The letter from the president of the New Mexico Trappers’ Association uses the words ‘ethical’ and ‘ethics’ several times about trapping (“Encourages Prosecuting...

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