Early monsoon season?
Kingston had a nice rain. Maybe the monsoons are beginning: a hopeful weather report from the National Weather Service.
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Mr. Smith goes to Washington, or in this case, Mr. Whitehead goes to Santa Fe
What the city's future and functionality will be rests largely in the ICIP process. The city needs to up its game in this area to include harnessing the community's support and power. City Manager Gary Whitehead already has game, thank goodness.
Negative gearing, mining, and New Mexico
In go(l)d we trust: a look at negative gearing, what it is, and how it can finance mining projects in Sierra County.
What you need to know, May 22, 2026: Overconsumption of water
We are depleting the Rio Grande Basin faster and faster every year, the groundwater 15 times faster than the river waters, reports the first comprehensive study of consumption in the whole Rio Grande/Bravo Basin system.
Village of Williamsburg’s FY2025 audit gets good grade
The Village only had one audit finding according to its at-arms-length auditor, Southwest Accounting Solutions of Albuquerque, but I preferred to use Truth in Accounting's evaluation method. The Village earned a good grade from them too.
ContraAlito: Afterword
In this Afterword I lay out the racial, ethnic, religious and gender groups with which Justice Alito and his fellow Justices identify, and I show how they enact those identities with their decision in "Louisiana v. Callais." I apologize for the length.
New auditor gives tough love to T or C, not phoney stars
Would you rather hear the brutal truth about city finances from a Dutch uncle or get the usual easy-A report from a lax teacher? The former makes the city think about its future and the latter makes it easy to rack up debt.
ContraAlito IV
This is the last part of my essay on the Supreme Court's decision to forbid states to remap voting districts on the basis of race but allows states to gerrymander for political reasons. The result will be the return of hidden racism.
Village of Williamsburg’s ICIP: Streets = stormwater control = nonpoint source pollution to Rio Grande
I don't blame Villagers for not participating in the Infrastructure Capital Improvements Project. The meeting time was changed, you couldn't write in suggestions to the Village clerk, there was only one public hearing and it was only 30 minutes long. Getting the "why" out of trustees' ICIP choices was hard.
BLM fast-tracks ‘Green Chile’ pipeline construction review for NM data center Project Jupiter
I republish here (a bit late) an article by Danielle Prokop from Source NM, which is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. Danielle Prokop reports on climate crisis on the Rio Grande, water litigation and health impacts from pollution.
Trickle down economics + toxic optimism + lack of asset management = our present and future
Asset management plans are boring. Camelot dreams are not. We are still basing our choice of capital projects on "wouldn't it be nice" instead of "what is the state of our assets."
ContraAlito III
This is the third part of my analysis of Supreme Court Alito's Louisiana v. Callais ruling. In it I discuss the mostly unacknowledged undertow that pulls his argument together and the way those currents come out of the Court's decades-long destruction of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.