Stuff you need to know, 5.12.23
Today's intelligence: cautiously optimistic predictions of the impact of the end of Title 42 on New Mexico's Mesilla Valley
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, 5.10.23
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses a nuclear waste storage facility for southern New Mexico in the face of vociferous opposition from state officials and environmental activists. Virgin Galactic continues to tell investors and the media that it will soon begin commercial flights.
Stuff you need to know, 5.8.23
Water pollution will now be addressed at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamagordo, allowing closed test wells to reopen and vital research to continue.
Stuff you need to know, 5.4.23
Today's intelligence: Can New Mexico's new bill granting the state permitting control over nuclear waste storage facilities survive a court challenge from the federal government? What will it take to get the feds to clean up a water pollution problem at Kirtland Air Force Base?
Stuff you need to know, 5.3.23
An assessment by New York Times critic Roberta Smith of MOMA New York's current Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition, the museum's first extended look since 1946 at the ground-breaking artist who made her permanent home in New Mexico
Stuff you need to know, 5.2.23
Another failed space launch and the crumbling of New Mexico's culturally significant adobe churches
Stuff you need to know, 5.1.23
Today's intelligence: Last spring's Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon disaster has exposed the shortcomings of FEMA's response to wildfires.
Stuff you need to know, 4.28.23
Today's intelligence: a Taos-initiated court case seeks to restore access through a private property to public recreational lands and a closer look at Virgin Galactic's recent flight test.
Stuff you need to know, 4.27.23
Today's intelligence: a sign that Virgin Galatic may be inching closer to commercial operations. Plus: the death of New Mexico's pioneering Latino former governor
Stuff you need to know, 4.25.23
A "collosal" expansion of Los Alamos National Laboratory's nuclear mission prompts New Mexico religious leader John C. Wester to speak out forcefully for nuclear disarmament. Plus: a closer look at the possible nullification of a new law aimed at preventing nuclear waste storage in the state
Stuff you need to know, 4.24.23
Wondering whatever happened to the Turtleback Trails volunteer planning effort to improve access to Sierra County's Rio Grande recreational assets? Its formal concept paper is now in the hands of the Truth or Consequences City Commission.
Stuff you need to know, 4.20.23
Here's the scoop about your state tax rebate.