V. Sue Cleveland High School makes students feel like they are in captivity! We students were coming back from a deserved break, and the day before our parents get an email stating that they are changing the tardy policy and...

Over the past several months I noticed a brown build-up in our toilets. The toilets in our house are cleaned regularly, and within several days the bottom of the bowls have a significant brown build-up. I wondered what was this...

A group of conservative lobbyists and legislators, like Senator Brandt, are continuously working to privatize and defund public education and are attempting to disguise their efforts as school “choice.” Senate Bill 109 titled...

I just read your story in the Observer about the city preparing to fix more roads. Perfect timing because I’ve been wondering when the city is planning on getting around to starting on Spring Road NE from Unser to Mesa....

Let us remember what happened on that date. It was a day of 187 MINUTES OF INSURRECTION AND DERELICTION OF DUTY. Supporters of the 45th president went to the U.S. Capital Building while a joint session of Congress was in session...

Reading about Commissioner Jay Block’s speech in [Jan. 19] Observer, I was heartened to hear of his disgust and impatience with the misinformation and disinformation that’s disrupting our country now. I agree with some of his...

After a long-earned break, students like myself at Cleveland High School returned to a new tardy policy. The policy makes clear if students are late to class, they will be collected by security and taken to the In-School...

I served as Deputy District attorney in Sandoval County from 1993 until 1997, and again from 2001 to 2003. I led the Prosecution team for the District Attorney’s Office along with Assistant District Attorney Gloria Lucero in...

Editor: I have been a resident of Rio Rancho for 17 years and there are many things I love about being a Rio Rancho resident. Having lived in Santa Fe for 15 years previously, what I feel is greatly lacking is art. There is no...

Editor: Just like that, summer is coming to a close and New Mexico’s children are filing back into school. At the same time, New Mexico remains at the bottom of all of the lists indicating economic prosperity and wellbeing,...

EDITOR: “Ella es una de Nosotros”?? When I heard this from Michelle’s husband, I thought of what is wrong with New Mexico politics.  What keeps NM in 50th place, year after year.  Ethnic  politics. I grew up...

Editor Sunday, Aug. 21 was Sunday is Funday. Despite weather PREDICTION of rain, it was a glorious NM day. Our organization welcomed the chance to meet and speak “without thumbs and being just a face on a 3×5...

Editor: FINALLY, CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION! There is no issue more important than the climate emergency. It’s not some future theory — it’s here, and we can see it in the increased droughts, wildfires and floods that are hurting our...

Editor: I will state here my firm belief that patriotism is a virtue and nationalism a sin. Vital to such a statement is some picture of the chasm between “virtue” and “sin” which I entreat my readers to acquire as soon as...

Editor: Leave it to the Rio Grande Foundation (RGF) to highlight the single U.S. study (from Tennessee) that shows a negative correlation of academic performance between those attending a state pre-K child education program and...

Editor: Freedom? Meh! After having endured many years of Rio Rancho lawlessness, I’m standing for the rights of all of our citizens to public safety protection from the terrorists who claim they are celebrating “their...