Sierra County commissioners unanimously endorse 18-month moratorium to thwart data center at Spaceport America
Sierra County joins Santa Fe and Socorro counties with moratorium on new data centers before a record crowed at public hearing.
Tom Sharpe
Tom Sharpe has been a print journalist for most of his life. He grew up in East Texas, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and began coming to New Mexico to work as a forest firefighter out of Questa in 1971. He has worked full-time for the Santa Fe New Mexican, the Santa Fe bureau of the Albuquerque Journal and the Santa Fe Reporter, has freelanced extensively for the Denver Post, Engineering News-Record and Agence France-Presse, and was a press aide for New Mexico Gov. Toney Anaya (1983-86).
Sharpe and his wife Stacy Brown, an artist (paintings and drawings available at Snakestone Studios in Truth or Consequences) and master knitter (knitted toys available at Dust), have six children from previous marriages. They began coming to Truth or Consequences for long weekends away from Santa Fe more than 20 years ago, and after retiring from their jobs and selling their Santa Fe home in 2023, moved to the Truth or Consequences Hot Springs District.
Defeat of Socorro data center has some worrying about relocation to Sierra County’s Spaceport America
Some locals want to see Sierra County moratorium on computer data centers. County commission chairman threatens to eject proponents for applauding at public comment period.
World’s fastest aircraft, a fighter-sized unmanned ramjet, plans tests at Spaceport America this month
Spaceport leery of revealing reasons about road closures during tests of Quarterhorse drone == the first major defense contractor for the headquarters for civilian space exploration.
PreReal executive proposes alliance to lobby for tax money to handle coming economic boom
The Sierra County Commission balked on approving a joint powers agreement to create an alliance between government and private industries to seek funding for new infrastructure. The proposal goes to the Truth or Consequences City Commission next.
Citizen resolving nearly year-long ordeal over unwitting use of copyrighted photo of governor
Swiss firm, AP and Nevada lawyers threatened to sue the Sierra County Citizen over its use of a photo plucked from governor's website. Now that we're settling, we can explain and ask for donations again.
Troubled indigent missing since leaving his possessions along Healing Waters Trail last April
Will Waltman graduated from St John's College and worked as a software developer before succumbing to mental illness, paranoia and homelessness.
Laid off at 40, Grigulevich reinvents himself as an author of popular Russian nonfiction about South America
Moscow, 1954-1988, With no job prospects in Moscow, Grigulevich begins to write about South America and the Roman Catholic Church, and finds an enthusiastic audience among young Russians interested in the outside world.
Costa Rican couple make a big splash in Roman diplomatic circles, then disappear
Rome, 1948-53. In the most outrageous covert act in the history of espionage, Josif and Laura fake their way into Roman diplomatic society by impersonating wealthy Costa Rican coffee merchants.
Back in Buenos Aires, Yuz settles in with Laura while firebombing German-bound ships
Argentina again, 1941-47: Grigulevich begins his war on Nazis by sabotaging a bookstore, then ships in Buenos Aires harbor heading to Germany. He and Laura head to Brazil after war ends.
Gatekeeper murdered, Siqueiros arrested, Grigulevich splits and another Stalin agent kills Trotsky
Mexico, 1940-41: After the raid, gatekeeper found dead, Siqueiros heads to the hills, Grigulevich returns to Santa Fe with new lover, and another Stalin assassin kills Trotsky with ice axe.
Mexico was a caldron of communism when Trotsky showed up, but its artists were in disagreement
Mexico, 1940. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo welcomed Trotsky to Mexico, but David Siqueiros and his muralists planned to scare him away by raiding his compound.
`Yuz’ accuses New York KGB spies of corruption. sloppy tradecraft and Trotskyism
New York, late 1938 to early 1939. Intercepted spy cables detail how Grigulevich attacked the credibility of the 'legal' Soviet agents in New York, resulting in the office ehief being executed..