Editorials
NM Needs a Stimulus Special Session Now
ABQ Journal Sunday, April 19, 2020 We can deal with the budget in June when numbers are clearer BY REP. DAYMON ELY - CORRALES DEMOCRAT We are living in unprecedented times. It has been over 100 years since our state has faced a crisis that threatens not only the lives...
Coronovirus OP/ED By Bert Coxe
I would like to address the OP-ED article by Diane Dimond published (in The Albuquerque Journal) on Saturday March 28, 2020 titled “Take a breath: COVID-19 sickens but rarely kills.” This article apparently is intended to try to make us feel better about the current...
Red Flag Law Protects New Mexicans
By Mitchell Freedman(The RR Observer published is editorial on March 15) There are misconceptions regarding New Mexico’s "red flag" gun law. The law is designed to reduce gun suicides and gun-based domestic violence, the latter mostly against women. Eighteen States...
Health Care, Sick Leave Vital Weapon
DESPITE HOLLOW presidential assurances to the contrary, the coronavirus is likely to proliferate in the United States. The unfortunate condition of our country’s health care system will exacerbate the damage. The coronavirus will not spare any demographic group. This...
Red Flag Law Letter to the Editor – Published in the RR Observer 02/23/20
The following was published in the Rio Rancho Observer on Sunday, February 23, 2020. The author is Judy Gordon a member of the Sandoval County Precinct 74 Committee. Dear Editor: Kudos to our Democratic governor and New Mexico Legislature for their action to prevent...
This Is No Way To Run A Democracy-Look at Iowa
For Rio Rancho ObserverPublished February 17, 2020 There are four early state Presidential election contests. Taken together the first four contests may be representative of a broken system. The first and second contests are biased in a way that knocks too many...
Bill Woldman – Candidate for Corrales Councilman
This March 3rd, with early voting starting on February 4th, Corralenos will be asked to fill three vacancies on the Village Council. I would like to urge you to vote for Bill Woldman to fill the District 2 seat. For the past 21 years Bill and his wife Barbara Bayer...
NM Legislative Session
By Daymon Ely, Democrat, District 23 New Mexico House of Representatives. The Legislature starts up again on January 21. Every even year is a short session – 30 days. Every odd year is a long session – 60 days. In the long session, anything goes. This means that...
Teacher Shortage Imperils State’s Public Education
By Charles Goodmacher Jonny is a fourth-grader in a small, rural school in New Mexico. His teacher lacks any form of teacher’s license. It’s common for long-term substitutes to teach for an entire year or more in this school. Jonny’s class is reported in a statewide...
An Editorial by Karen Schafer
To the editor of the Rio Rancho Observer: Your cartoon making fun of Greta Thunberg in the December 29 edition was totally inappropriate and insulting. This young woman has done more to bring awareness of the climate crisis than any other single individual. To deny...