Stuff you need to know, September 6, 2024
Leveraging federal Medicaid dollars could grow home visiting program - NM Political Report
Max Yeh
Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project’s board president Max Yeh is a novelist and writes widely on language, interpretation, history, and culture. He has lived in Hillsboro, New Mexico, for more than 30 years after retiring from an academic career in literature, art history and critical theory.
What you need to know, 9/3/2024
We know the electoral college elects the President, but do we know how few votes it takes to change the electoral college composition? Here is a detailed breakdown of how so few people end up deciding the results of a democratic election, courtesy of The Guardian.
We need money, again!
The funds for the Citizen are down to the last few hundred dollars, enough to get us to October. But we hope readers will donate enough to get us through all of next year.
What you need to know (continued), 8/26/24
The Supreme Court appoints a new special master to preside over the continuing Texas v. New Mexico Rio Grande case.
What you need to know about “Stuff you need to know”
Diana Tittle is leaving The Citizen.
Bigotry, xenophobia, and us
The Citizen responds to charges of bigotry and xenophobia from readers.
Biased update on the Copper Flat Mine Hearing
While waiting for a decision on the mine's protested application to transfer water rights to their wells for use at Copper Flat, I thought you might be interested in the positions finally taken by all the parties in the trial.
Pennies on the dollar: report on our finances
The Citizen reports to readers on donations, how we spend what readers contribute, how much we have, and how long it will last, a forward-looking perspective.
In the last eighty years
This article is a little meditation beginning with my accumulation of plain stuff and leading to thoughts on ownership, economics, property rights, equality and inequality, and the revolutionary ideas that created this country.
Copper Flat Mine litigation update
In the State Engineer's Hearing on the transfer of water rights for use in operating Copper Flat Mine, lawyers representing local protestors filed their written arguments against the transfer.
New Year sermon from a pagan, Part III
We conclude the sermon for the new year by considering our holy text, Deuteronomy 32:35, in the context of the Quran, and therein discover a surprising reference to the Hamas attack of October 7th.
New Year sermon from a pagan, Part II
This is the second part of the sermon on how the sacred texts of the Abrahamic religions deal with vengeance, punishment, and retribution.