Respect may mean something different to each of us. Some may consider it an important part of how you deal with others on a daily basis — an integral part of the "Golden Rule.  Full Story

I am writing to raise awareness of a fantastic community fund-raising event that hasn't received too much attention.  Full Story

TEEC NOS POS, Ariz. — The sign said there was a community school up the hill, so I turned onto the old road and eased up that way.  Full Story

It would be a serious mistake to think that this newspaper will give up so easy. Hardly. The results of a biased federal inquiry into the travel by hundreds of Navajo delegates to a conference in Hawaii, many of them using public money, found no wrongdoing and Sen.  Full Story

Just a few years ago, I was speaking to a media law class at Washington & Lee University in Virginia, and I'll never forget the comment I made that seemed to most capture their attention.  Full Story

No one enjoys reading about young teenagers trying to commit suicide. No one at this newspaper enjoys writing about it.  Full Story

I'm just guessing, but I'll bet Mr. Denton Blueeyes never has visited Hawaii. However, given that nearly 400 of his fellow tribal members spent perhaps $1 million in public money to go there, I'm sure he thinks it must be a pretty darn special place.  Full Story

Wednesday's column (Nov. 7), with the headline "Navajo schoolchildren deserve better," garnered dozens of e-mail responses from all over the U.S., with a majority of them coming from local writers claiming to be Navajo.  Full Story

In case you're wondering, the purpose of the story, "Navajo tribe sends 362-plus to Hawaii conference," was not so much to inform, as it was to make the Navajo Nation, its educators and its president look wasteful, look frivolous and look bad.  Full Story

So the Navajo Nation decided to visit Hawaii for a few days. What's the big deal about that? Anglo senators, representatives and other government leaders take junkets.  Full Story

A major victory was won on behalf of open government in Farmington and in New Mexico when District Judge Karen Townsend ruled Tuesday that the city was wrong to keep secret its applications for city manager, the most powerful position within the city administration.  Full Story

Once upon a time, there was a newspaper in Colorado that asked for the list of candidates who were applying for the city manager's position. All was well and there was plenty of mutual respect between the newspaper and the city. In fact, it was a very good relationship. But the newspaper took seriously its duty to request the information and to do its own independent review of those interested in the position.  Full Story

Robert B. Trapp President, New Mexico Press Association Community advocates, activists, volunteers and journalists with true grit will celebrate National Sunshine Week March 11 through 17. The week is set aside annually to celebrate our freedom to access information under the U.S. Constitution and enlighten the public of its rights to access the records it owns and public bodies it elects. Sadly, many people don't join us in our celebration.  Full Story

That third-base coach of ours looked as tall as the walls of Canyon de Chelly when he stood over there behind the base. We were just a bunch of kids, Little League or younger. He didn't have to yell so loud. We all wanted to bat and get a hit just as much as he was trying to fuss one out of us. Especially me. I was the smallest, tiniest, littlest kid on the team. My first defensive play was memorable enough.  Full Story

Wednesday was an interesting day in the editor's office. The first call I received that morning was from the mom of the 5-year-old victim in the recently reported sexual assault case in which the young girl was molested by a 16-year-old football player. Then that afternoon, I heard from the dad of the 16-year-old convicted of the crime. Both parents had entirely different agendas to discuss. And one similar one: Being a parent.  Full Story

— Troy Turner — The Daily Times Editor Judging by the diverse and very emotional response, sexual violence is a bigger problem in our community than what many of us might have imagined. The recent stories of two local football players linked to sex offenses with victims the age of 13 and 5 prompted hundreds of letters, calls, e-mails and poll votes to this newspaper, and sadly, many of them came because of personal experience with the issue.  Full Story

Literally hundreds of you responded, some angrily, and the overwhelming majority of you agree: There should be a law passed in New Mexico that requires some type of notification policy to alert the schools when possible sex offenders might be on their enrollments and roaming their halls. New Mexico at the moment has neither a notification policy nor a law preventing young sex offenders already convicted of heinous crimes from returning to school.  Full Story

Somewhere in our community today sits a 13-year-old girl who was forcibly raped. The accused rapist is an 18-year-old star football player who was suspended from school Monday, more than four months after the incident and after playing three games into the season. Last week, he led the sports section of the newspaper with his late-game heroics that won the game.  Full Story