Stuff you need to know, 1.12.24

“Spaceport leaders hold public meeting on future plans”
by Tommy Lopez, KOB Channel 4
January 10, 2024

At the January 10 meeting in Albuquerque attended by only a few dozen people, Spaceport America executives and consultants continued to hold out the promise of attracting new tenants, creating possibly thousands of jobs, and becoming the hub of a regional aerospace industry stretching from Los Alamos to El Paso. They also predicted that Virgin Galactic, the Spaceport’s main tenant, would experience a resurgence and eventually have more workers in the New Mexico than it did before recent layoffs.

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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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  1. I SOOOOOO want to encourage the Spaceport after all the energy and tax dollars that us Sierra County folks have added to the development of this project only to see NO return on our investment of sales tax dollars. It’s gonna be a hard sell to the early ‘victims’ of false hopes. NONE of the anticipated buck have come to Sierra County residents! The new ‘shortcut’ highway that cuts Sierra County and TorC out of even “drive through” dollars was a major blow to us. The gazillionaires who pay big bucks for tickets don’t stay here, don’t check out our wares, don’t even buy our expensive gas!! They don’t even have to pay sales tax on tickets to ride (who ever came up with THAT idea!!!) If they can afford a quarter/half million bucks for the ride they can afford the same outrageous GRT that we do on groceries to support the infrastructure!!! GET REAL – dissing the locals is NOT COOL if you want support! Remember the sugar in the gas tanks of the Edward Abbey days; we do!! That’s not a threat but a request for understanding that the locals have given more than their share of the energy that built the beast!!!!

  2. I told Sierra county what would happen as soon as I heard Branson was part of it. Everything I said would happen, happened & more! Brandon & his associates will continue to bleed this county & state until your in Santa Fe turn off the faucet.bb

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