Elon Musk brandished a chainsaw at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference and shouted that it symbolized his intention to cut government spending. In this article I analyze the meanings that chainsaw carries, and my conclusions are different from what the media has said.
The first board of directors will have no tax money in hand for a year. That means they have to scrounge for legal help to set up bylaws, administrative help to notice their meetings, draft agendas and minutes. This makes them vulnerable to outside influences, like the county.
I was deeply impressed by new Truth or Consequences City Manager Gary Whitehead's response to my question on whether the city was violating the Open Meetings Act. It changed a misconception I had held to for years.
The City of T or C's third referendum on the purchase and renovation of a police building will not be held, but the people were snookered anyway.
New City Manager Gary Whitehead is a very good communicator, which was put to the test his first city commission meeting.
Want to know the details of the new city manager's contract? A cumbersome synonym instead of city manager is one detail.
Ours is not to reason why, ours is to pay higher utility bills and taxes to support a plethora of capital projects.
Whitehead starts Monday, his native status and familiarity with the city and its people perhaps giving him a leg up in hitting the ground running.
Pathetic pay raise for T or C police is not enough to stop the revolving door.
Fair and equitable distribution of the new flood control tax? Most likely ranchers will continue to benefit much more than city dwellers.
We so need to correct bad practices that got us into the current utility crises. I say an outsider, with utility management and city planning experience, is the best choice, not more of the same.
In the past year, the Federal Trade Commission has been studying how drug pricing works. In July, it published an interim staff report on the role of pharmacy benefit managers. Last week the FTC published a second report on how the biggest three PBMs control prices.