Gary’s Glimpses: Desperado Las Vegas
Typically, when you tell people you’ve just been to Las Vegas, they ask how much you won and...
Read MoreAug 22, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
Typically, when you tell people you’ve just been to Las Vegas, they ask how much you won and...
Read MoreAug 19, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
I’ve always watched a lot of TV. Some might say too much, but not me. My regular weekly...
Read MoreAug 18, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
Eighteen weeks ago, our students did not board the bus and arrive at school like most Mondays....
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Public safety in Sandoval County is not a partisan issue. An example of this took place at the...
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Here’s some encouraging news: “Declining costs and new capabilities have reached the...
Read MoreAug 11, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
Down the street from my Rio Rancho home is a spacious community park that my family has not visited in weeks due to COVID-19. When we go for evening walks to get my young daughters out of the house, the park is full of life —...
Read MoreAug 9, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
Amidst a global pandemic and economic catastrophe, we are coming together to recognize our shared...
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When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political...
Read MoreJul 19, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
Darynda Jones’ “A Bad Day for Sunshine” is a fun, yet ultimately frustrating,...
Read MoreJul 18, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
In February of last year, Sandoval County “flipped the switch” on energy savings to...
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It cannot be overstated that this pandemic is to be taken seriously and that we, as communities...
Read MoreJul 8, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
“Being a white ‘ally’ may not be easy.” “Next time don’t say:...
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Rio Rancho desperately needs affordable housing so people can live near their workplaces. Land...
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Let’s think about this destruction of statues of iconic persons and the renaming of schools,...
Read MoreJun 25, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
The economy is opening up, ever so slowly, with retail stores and restaurants returning to limited...
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Editor’s note: In light of the mayhem in Albuquerque last week surrounding the Oñate statue...
Read MoreJun 22, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
People living with eating disorders often present with a complex picture of interrelated medical and psychiatric conditions. The University of New Mexico’s newly expanded Eating Disorders Clinic will offer patients access...
Read MoreJun 21, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk...
Read MoreJun 16, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
There is a video circulating on social media of a beautiful little girl, her smiling face aglow in pride, proclaiming “Daddy changed the world.” It is both uplifting and heart-breaking. The little girl is at one of...
Read MoreJun 15, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
Our country has undergone a very painful chapter in its history in the past weeks. Our nation was...
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It is safe to say, as a country, we have been through a lot recently. With each month presenting...
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Last week’s Observer staff editorial, and inflammatory headline, detailing and criticizing a...
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Good government is seldom captured in photo ops or sound bites. It’s found in mostly...
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The new year for contracted work between Sandoval County and the Sandoval Economic Alliance begins...
Read MoreJun 2, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center, a 60-bed community hospital in Rio Rancho’s City Center, has provided state-of-the-art health care to thousands of Sandoval County residents since it opened in the summer of 2012. But...
Read MoreMay 30, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
The new year for contracted work between Sandoval County and the Sandoval Economic Alliance begins...
Read MoreMay 28, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
These days, Santa Fe’s Bishop’s Lodge is a high-end hotel and playground for those who...
Read MoreMay 27, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
Suzanne Redfearn’s “In an Instant” (2019) is a remarkable book, which manages to...
Read MoreMay 26, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
The governor’s early response to the coronavirus slowed the spread and saved lives. Two months later, however, we’ve learned much more about COVID-19, how to manage it and the much-lower-than-anticipated mortality...
Read MoreMay 25, 2020 | Guest Columns, Opinion | 0
One of the most successful and common economic development models seen across the U.S. is the public-private partnership model that utilizes combined resources and efforts of the public and private sectors. Sandoval Economic...
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