Rio Rancho Rams win state title in dramatic run
Our View lauds Rio Rancho High School for capturing the state basketball championship at WisePies Arena after a five game late-season slide. Coach Wally Salata credits focus, teamwork, and a locker room motto list including discipline, trust, and family for guiding the Rams to a four game streak and a second title in program history.
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City of Vision
City of Champions
Rio Rancho High School
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WisePies Arena
Wally Salata
Cleveland High
Brian Smith
Clay Patterson
Salata
AAHS
Javier DeLeon
Full-time Rio Rancho Mayor salary debated by letter writer
Mark Looper of Rio Rancho refutes part-time pay for a full-time mayor in a March letter to the Observer. He cites former mayoral holder Tom Swisstack balancing Albuquerque duties, asserts voters elected a full-time mayor, and criticizes comments by Mark Scott and alleged ties with Kerry Adams and Dawnn Robinson.
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District 4
Mark Scott
Tom Swisstack
Albuquerque
Rio Rancho
Swisstack
Scott
Kerry Adams
Dawnn Robinson
Hull
Keep Them Home in Rio Rancho A Call for Minimum Wage Change
Ray A. Collins argues that raising the minimum wage could curb youth outmigration from Rio Rancho by boosting local earnings and tax revenue. He notes recent election changes, envisions two to three new council members, and urges the new body to address wages to sustain graduates and local employment.
Rimful of district politics stirs Rio Rancho vacancy talk
Rio Rancho City Council faces a District 5 vacancy as Councilor Shelby Smith steps down to move to Arizona. Kerry Adams is seen as a potential successor amid questions about mayoral influence and calls for diverse candidates. Thomas Buckner resurfaces as a possible non TEA Party option. Talk of water rate hikes and a $25 million waste plant looms over the debate.
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Rio Rancho
Arizona
Kerry Adams
Adams
Robinson
District 5
Thomas Buckner
Buckner
Nuclear attack response and MAD era fears
The piece recalls the Cold War fear of nuclear war under MAD, noting no attacks in 70 years. It questions the U S policy should a terrorist group detonate a bomb on American soil, pointing to a lack of articulated national strategy amid rogue states with fissionable material.
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