If you have never heard of Carl Schmitt, you've missed the glue that holds all the Administration's actions together. Schmitt was Germany's leading jurist in the 20s and 30s. As professor of jurisprudence he wrote political theory attacking liberal parliamentary democracy. Those books are the blueprint of the new America.
Can this board set the mission and policies that will stick? They have 10 months as temporary appointees. Or will their work be wiped out, swept away by successors, since each of their five seats will be on the November 2025 ballot?
Since Friday the 13th high heat and smoke keep us inside
Two days ago, @realDonaldTrump posted a glorification of ICE activities in Los Angeles. I analyze the writing to look for the real Donald Trump and what he is really saying to us as he advocates for an expansion of deportation.
Whitehead is saving the people a lot of money by critically evaluating capital projects and just in time. Over the past 10 years capital projects have burgeoned from less than $2 million a year to $73 million this year due to long neglect of city infrastructure.
Next year's ICIP process will be better, since new City Manager Gary Whitehead is making city doings a thousand times more transparent. This year's process was the same kabuki theater.
Republication of Cindy Ramirez's analysis in El Paso Matters of what is happening in federal immigration courts across the country, focusing on a session in El Paso.
Tom Hinson was a reserved man who during his decade in Truth or Consequences seldom talked about his career acquiring contemporary art for the prestigious Cleveland Museum of Art and developing its collection of photography. Hinson, 80, died May 29 from cancer in Tucson where he and his spouse, Diana…
This article is a long comment on Kathleen Sloan's analysis, "New Mexico Copper Corporation will still use a lot of water" (https://sierracountycitizen.org/new-mexico-copper-corporation-will-still-use-a-lot-of-water/).
I apologize for not getting this bit of news out until now when it is no longer new. Texas's lawsuit against New Mexico for allowing groundwater wells in our area to syphon off water in the Rio Grande that belongs to Texas may end in a settlement.
270 jobs for maybe 20 years if copper prices don't fall in exchange for a polluted site for 100 or more years that will repel tourists and recreation seekers? Sounds like a trade-off a desperate third-world country would make.
The West Texas/New Mexico measles outbreak continues of grow as the virus works its way through bodies not immune to it from vaccination or natural immunity. As people give up vaccination for one reason or another or no reason at all, there are more and more bodies available to it.