Submitted by Steve Conrad, Ph.D. groundwater hydrology The recent op-ed by Sherry Robinson entitled “Step into the future with Produced Water” exhorts us to “trust technology and step into the future.” The problem with her premise is that the oil and gas wastewater treatment technology she suggests that we trust is unproven to be even […]
Letters to the Editor
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Letter to the Editor: Unbecoming Conduct by New Mexico State Senator
Submitted by Barbara V. Hall In the Santa Fe New Mexican, Senator Craig Brandt criticized Senate District 9 Republican candidate, Audrey Trujillo, with unfounded, defamatory accusations. The purpose? To promote Trujillo’s Republican opponent before the Primary. Trujillo is ahead in the polls and Senator Brandt is scared. No matter how dirty politics can get, Senator Brandt […]
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Letter to the Editor: Tech’s Influence on New Mexico’s Farming Industry
By Lucie Deuel, NM entrepreneur We live in a world where water levels are dangerously low, outdated machinery is hogging essential energy, and tons of food is wasted daily. Reduce, reuse, recycle- a term that has been battered into our minds from a young age, yet the trend stays the same. Resources diminish, carbon footprints […]
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Letter to the Editor: Tech’s Influence on New Mexico’s Farming Industry
By Lucie Deuel, NM entrepreneur We live in a world where water levels are dangerously low, outdated machinery is hogging essential energy, and tons of food is wasted daily. Reduce, reuse, recycle- a term that has been battered into our minds from a young age, yet the trend stays the same. Resources diminish, carbon footprints […]
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Letter to the Editor: Tech’s Influence on New Mexico’s Farming Industry
By Lucie Deuel, NM entrepreneur We live in a world where water levels are dangerously low, outdated machinery is hogging essential energy, and tons of food is wasted daily. Reduce, reuse, recycle- a term that has been battered into our minds from a young age, yet the trend stays the same. Resources diminish, carbon footprints […]
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Letter to the Editor: Estancia Valley Classical Academy Violated the Open Meetings Act
Submitted by Craig Springer, concerned citizen One year ago the Estancia Valley Classical Academy’s unelected governing council (school board) fundamentally transformed the public charter school in Edgewood. In doing so they violated state law, the Open Meetings Act, the school’s own charter, and have blasphemed America’s founding principles they claim to take very seriously. The […]
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Commentary: Supreme Court Program Allows Students to Learn About the Judicial Process
This letter is provided as opinion/commentary from the author. You can submit your own letter to editor@sandovalsignpost.com Submitted by Justice David K. Thomson, Office of the Courts This year is the 60th anniversary of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. President John F. Kennedy proposed this legislation in 1963, but he was assassinated before […]
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Letter to the Editor: Intel Needs a Better Way of Managing Emissions
Submitted by Barbara Rockwell, Placitas resident and the author of “Boiling Frogs, Intel vs. the Village” Intel plans to use a new version of the old oxidizers/incinerators, emission control technology in its new expansion, a technology that is now more than thirty years old. Burning off the emissions was always unreliable resulting in breakdowns that […]
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Letter to the Editor: New Mexico is Right to Hold Out for Higher Prices for its Most Valuable Commodity
Submitted by Bill Jordan/New Mexico Voices for Children New Mexico is a land with many valuable assets – from our rich cultural diversity to our stunning physical beauty, to our mineral wealth. These assets belong to us all and while it’s impossible to put a price on some of them – our culture and natural […]
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Letter to the Editor: Small Towns Should Hold Leaders and Police Accountable Too
Submitted by Pilar Tirado Murray, East Mt. resident If you’d like to submit a Letter to the Editor, please email editor@newmexico.news Merritt Hamilton Allen’s tart, intelligent and tongue-in-cheek take on New Mexico politics is always a pleasure to read and last week’s column (“APD: A Cautionary Tale”) was no exception. The “crisis communication pro tips” […]