Stuff you need to know, 4.15.24
New Mexico places high for risk from consumer predation by private-equity investments in the state.
Category Analyses
Stuff you need to know, 4.12.24
Why is New Mexico the only state that has seen a drop in its foreign-born population over a 10-year period?
T or C City Commission hands out more blank checks to city department heads
Another four years of 'on-call' contracts that short-circuit city commission and public oversight of capital projects. Department heads have carte blanche to hire architects and engineers behind closed doors.
Political considerations, 4.7.24
A how-to on voting in New Mexico's June 4 primary
Stuff you need to know, 4.3.24
A new study provides needed specificity about the uses to which the Colorado's irrigation water is put in the river's basin, which includes New Mexico.
Referendum means nothing to city commission
The city commission adheres to its practice of not considering criticism or learning from it, even when a referendum checks their power. More toxic positivity will be imposed and naysayers and truth-sayers will continue to be scapegoated and castigated.
Political considerations, 3.29.24
New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver is a leader of states' efforts to limit the threat posed by artificial intelligent deepfakes to fair elections.
Stuff you need to know, 3.28.24
Updating the status of lawsuits brought against the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's licensing of nuclear storage facilities in several states, including New Mexico.
Snow hits the Black Range
A snow storm hit the Black Range for a couple days. Sometimes it snowed big white flakes , sometimes little snowflakes drifted aimlessly, sometimes the sun peaked thru.
Political considerations, 3.25.24
Why would Arizonan Kari Lake, a potential Trump running mate, make a video encouraging her followers to subscribe to a hard-hitting online newspaper covering politics and government in her state? She didn't. Welcome to the scary new world of AI-created disinformation.
Stuff you need to know, 3.22.24
Today's intelligence from state and national/reporting: Do taxpayer dollars used to lure movie and tv productions to a state have a demonstrable economic development payoff?
Stuff you need to know, 3.21.24
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments regarding the legitimacy of the proposed resolution of the Rio Grande water dispute between Texas and New Mexico.