Editor: The current golf course owner has done nothing but plan and maintain nothing. Water rates were reduced to allow for a golf course. Golf course developers were ready to move forward. Now he wants to donate a portion of...

Editor: Ramon Montaño is running for re-election to the Rio Rancho school board, and I believe he has demonstrated that he deserves our vote to continue to serve our children. Ramon has maintained a positive and open line of...

Editor: The annual Rio Rancho Kiwanis “Buy Rio Rancho” holiday sign design contest is ongoing. Students can win great prizes as well as have their sign displayed all over town through the holidays. We want to be sure...

Editor: What’s next from Waste Management for the citizens of Rio Rancho? It seems that “WM” has decided to reduce recycling picks by roughly 50 percent, to every other week rather than the existing weekly...

Editor: As a former co-owner of the facility known as Club Rio Rancho, I experienced a profound sadness as we all watched the facility go up in flames on Oct. 4. Thousands of residents utilized the club as a “surrogate...

Editor: I would like to say a big thank you to the Parks and Rec guys who were working down in the Willow Creek bosque on Sept 30. A friend of mine walks down there every day. He is on crutches and needs a place to rest when he...

Editor: Nothing says NOT New Mexico more than a six-story black high-rise set in a neighborhood of one- and two-story earth tone buildings, next to a residential neighborhood. (See Sept. 29 Observer for story that prompted this...

Editor: On Sunday, September 29, at about 12:15 p.m., I was headed eastbound and stopped at the intersection of Corrales Road and NM 528 when a group of about 100 motorcyclists was turning east on Corrales Road from northbound...

Editor: I just read your article dated Sept. 23, 2019, regarding the Trump rally. It may have looked good to some, but the discrimination of the handicapped was unconscionable. I am 70 years old in a wheelchair. I tried to...

Editor: I am a second-year student at University of New Mexico, and my faculty’s well-being is important to me. I have seen professors who had to leave UNM due to their pay or lack thereof, and it is frustrating that I am...

Editor: Donald Trump came to New Mexico to stir up racism within our immigrant and Latino communities in an attempt to make political gains. It’s particularly disturbing for him to be visiting New Mexico and talk to...

Editor: Wow! I feel like I’ve been dissected and put under a microscope! I am a retiree. Sounds like you just love me for my money! Now I know how tourists feel when they read that, “This event will bring $40 million...

Editor: Our family is new to Rio Rancho, and we were very disappointed to learn this summer that U.S. Coast Guard-approved life vests are not allowed to be used at any of the city pools. The City of Rio Rancho’s policy not...

Editor: I am stunned by Mr. Candelaria’s view (in the Sept. 8 Observer) that trees are an unnecessary and extravagant luxury along Rio Rancho’s second-busiest road. Since trees exchange carbon monoxide and carbon...

Editor: Rio Rancho will have an excellent opportunity this week to demonstrate that we are a community in the finest American tradition, when President Trump comes here for a campaign rally. Some Rio Ranchoans support President...

Editor: I agree wholeheartedly with Tom Dixon’s idea in the Sept. 1 Observer issue regarding high school students starting class too early. It is an idea I am sure is familiar to the Rio Rancho school district as well as...

Editor: Jay Inventor’s response to my comments about the work on Southern Boulevard minimizes a number of the issues I raised. At no point did I claim to be a “road-construction expert.” But having seen...

Editor: I read with dismay the letter written by Mr. Stevens (in the Sept. 1 Observer). It troubled me that we seem to have reached a point where many of us no longer seem to be able to speak the same language. It would seem...