Racehorses, slot machines and election campaigns
In New Mexico, horse racetracks have become centers of political power. This is a republication of a September 11 article by Noah Raess and Joshua Bowling in Searchlight New Mexico.
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.
New Mexico AG seeks contempt hearing, adds landowners to streams access suit
Attorneys for the state say that landowners are refusing to comply with a 2022 NM Supreme Court ruling allowing public access to rivers and streams. Republication of article by Danielle Prokop, of Source NM, September 6, 2024.
Life, death or deportation
Republication of an article by Ed Williams, from Searchlight New Mexico, July 18, 2024, describing the choices undocumented people in Las Cruces face in dealing with serious health issues that can only be treated in Albuquerque.
Stuff you need to know, September 7, 2024
'Astonishing' Study Shows Infant Deaths Rise in US When Bat Populations Fall. Common Dreams has published an article examining the implications of this study. Ecologists assume that life on the planet is interconnected. While that makes sense, hard evidence has been slow to accumulate. This study seems a major demonstration.
Stuff you need to know, September 6, 2024
Leveraging federal Medicaid dollars could grow home visiting program - NM Political Report
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.