Stuff you need to know, 7.26.23
Should residential use of New Mexico's scare water resources take precedence over agriculture?
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.
Stuff you need to know, 7.25.23
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham pledged to “limit adverse climate change impacts" and "build a clean energy future for our people.” Environmental activists and data on such green metrics as emissions and toxic spills say she hasn't followed through.
Stuff you need to know, 7.22.23
A review of "Oppenheimer," the epic movie opening this weekend, and the real-life and continuing fallout in New Mexico of Oppenheimer's achievement in organizing the wartime effort to create the world's first nuclear weapons
Stuff you need to know, 7.21.23
Today's intelligence: New Mexico to require auto dealers to make increasing numbers of zero-emission vehicles available. Plus: discrimination lawsuit against the New Mexico Spaceport Authority settled
Stuff you need to know, 7.20.23
Today's intelligence: New Mexico Governor Grisham's White House announcement and Sierra County's unfavorable unemployment rate
Stuff you need to know, 7.18.23
Late last year, Congress allocated $3.95 billion to compensate victims of New Mexico's worst wildfire ever. So far,
the Federal Emergency Management Agency has paid out only about $3 million in Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire claims.
Stuff you need to know, 7.17.23
Today's intelligence: A looming Arizona water rights conflict involving the production of alfalfa could set legal precedents that will affect agriculture throughout the drought-striken Southwest. Plus: Black Fire relief aid is finally on its way.
Stuff you need to know, 7.13.23
Today's intelligence: safety lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the most senior U.S. Department of Energy research and development labs and a major economic driver for New Mexico
Stuff you need to know, 7.12.23
Stating that a reasonable degree of partisan gerrymandering is permissible under law, the New Mexico Supreme Court returns a Republican Party suit challenging the results of 2021 redistricting to a district court to resolve.
Stuff you need to know, 7.11.23
What's causing New Mexico's "non-soon"? Plus: Rio Grande water dispute between Texas and New Mexico moves one step closer to settlement after a decade of litigation.
Stuff you need to know, 7.10.23
Like Kingston here in Sierra County, Taos, New Mexico, is experiencing neighbor-against-neighbor conflicts over access to public lands. Plus: eligibility for federal compensation for Trinity downwinders again proposed in Congress and two New Mexico reporters receive national recognition
Stuff you need to know, 7.6.23
Today's intelligence: why you should check to make sure your Medicaid eligibility certification is up to date