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Citizen resolving nearly year-long ordeal over unwitting use of copyrighted photo of governor
Swiss firm, AP and Nevada lawyers threatened to sue the Sierra County Citizen over its use of a photo plucked from governor's website. Now that we're settling, we can explain and ask for donations again.
New animal control ordinance favors ranchers
"Laws for me but not thee," someone pointed out at the last public hearing on the animal control ordinance. A final public hearing will be held in about a month.
Muni golf course subsidy and even higher water and sewer fees make for odd bedfellows at city commission meeting
Sometimes the city commission meeting is like watching commissioners fiddle while Rome burns.
Faster than a speeding bullet
In this detailed analysis of a sample of our President’s writing, we can see the thought process that determines national and international policies on our behalf. The transparency is to be applauded.
Texas v. NM, going forward
The resolution to Texas’s suit against New Mexico for failure to deliver Elephant Butte water will depend on New Mexico curtailing its overuse. What we, as a whole, agree to do is laid out in non-technical language in a linked article.
Meeting people in their communities will be the modus operandi of new flood control district board
Sharing and coordinating resources between the two flood control districts bodes well for Sierra Countians, especially since tax money won't sufficiently cover permanent-solutions projects. Economies in operations and grant writing will be necessary.
Turtleback Mountain Golf & Resort has its way with Elephant Butte and Truth or Consequences in annexation action
Rinse and repeat. The people's best interests take a back seat to businesses' development plans, with city councils' compliance and repression of public engagement and withholding of public documents.
“The Art of Making a Deal,” a dialogue
This fictional dialogue tries to depict the process of dealmaking behind the President's deal to lower drug prices to help Americans.
Who knew? Elephant Butte’s wastewater treatment plant is in Truth or Consequences
Low land that saved the cost of putting in more lift stations may be the reason the City of Elephant Butte built its wastewater treatment plant within T or C's boundaries. Or maybe Elephant Butte thought it was county land? Now Elephant Butte wants the plant within its city limits.
Fahl goes out with a bang, but not the one she intended
Truth or Consequences residents packed the city commission's Dec. 17 meeting to express their vehement disfavor of Fahl's vague resolution that could "open the door to ICE."
No Kings: Court rules against T or C—City commission can’t make up public bid rules
Ron Fenn, activist and thorn in the side of the T or C city commission, had to file a case in court to get it to uphold the law and get fair treatment. District court, appellate court and remanded back to district court, Fenn finally got justice, after great exertion.