Stuff you need to know, 12.18.23

“Gov. Lujan Grisham cuts ribbon on new state-of-the-art residences at State Veterans’ Home”
Press Release, Office of the Governor
December 14, 2023

The Lujan Grisham administration secured a $60 million investment from the New Mexico Legislature during the 2022 session that enabled the construction of six residences that will provide safer, more private and more comfortable accommodations for veterans living at the state facility in Truth or Consequences. The first three homes, each containing 12 suites, are finished, with the remaining three scheduled for completion by February 2024.

Click on the above link to read the press release.

“Overhaul underway at once troubled state veterans home”
by Robert Nott, Santa Fe New Mexican
May 27, 2023

Backgrounder on the residential housing project and the history and performance of the state veterans’ home itself.

Click on the above link to read this limited-access article.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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