Local and state cooperation will be key in delivering help and recovering from disaster–and a brand new hazard mitigation plan lays out what’s needed.
A new airport layout plan is needed, but nearly $600,000 worth? Why spend time and money on future growth and development if there is no water out there and new water appropriations are limited due to a closed basin? Shouldn't water availability be studied first?
The city commission hasn't bothered to pass an ordinance on tiny homes. Now it's granted an owner a variance to have one in the special Riverside neighborhood, making zero findings of fact, leaving the field wide open for others who want a tiny home.
Lewis Carroll's search for the snark---sailing across the ocean with a blank map in pursuit of what may be illusory--is similar to the city budget and its blank underpinnings and deficit spending. Yet talk of expansion is rife. The city commission evidently believes in snarks.
Serious governance and fiscal oversight is still taking a back seat to chasing "quality of life" projects.
Is the over $5 million to be transferred out of the utilities, as proposed in the interim budget, to pay for "bread and circuses?" Yes. But in what proportion? In ancient Roman senators' flagrancy, as Juvenal satirized?
A couple of days ago, the Supreme Court approved the Special Master’s Fourth Interim Report on the case known as “No. 141 Original Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado.”
Kingston had a nice rain. Maybe the monsoons are beginning: a hopeful weather report from the National Weather Service.
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.
In go(l)d we trust: a look at negative gearing, what it is, and how it can finance mining projects in Sierra County.
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.
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.