Assaying Entropy IV: Covid and America
Some aspects of American society might make us more prone to what psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls fast thinking and thus more prone to make mistakes in judgment when it comes to complex issues like Covid.
Category Analyses
Catch them being good: Mayor Pro Tem Rolf Hechler makes findings of fact
Hooray. Fairness under the city's zoning code was in evidence at the Dec. 14 city commission meeting, thanks to Mayor Pro Tem Rolf Hechler. He went through his findings of fact before ruling, as required by law, eschewing opinion.
Next city manager will ease utility infrastructure crises—if transparent and experienced
The next city manager must hold to a course correction, reversing 60 years of water, wastewater and electric infrastructure neglect--Bruce Swingle is leaving in May.
Assaying Entropy III: Thinking about Covid
Some limits on our ability to think when we want to think about Covid.
Assaying Entropy II: Dying during Covid
Is our perception of death and of human life changing because of the Covid-19 pandemic?
Assaying Entropy I: Entropy
I am introducing a series of articles in which I view and weigh our present world in light of the concept of entropy, and in this first essay, I explain what entropy is and how it allows us to see the effects of everything that we do.
Stuff you need to know, 11.17.22
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: a new state initiative to monitor New Mexico public school districts suspected of undercounting (and thus underserving) students experiencing homelessness
Stuff you need to know, 11.14.22
Must-see reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: inside accounts of post-election regrouping by state Democrats and Republicans
Stuff you need to know, 11.3.22
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country: Today's intelligence: veteran politics blogger Joe Monahan's dissection of the strategies behind President Biden's visit today to Albuquerque and a new poll that indicates that the New Mexico gubernatorial race has become a dead heat.
Lots of holes in Hot Springs protections and oversight
The city commission's workshop on the hot springs clarified that it's up to the city, not the Office of the State Engineer, to take care of the hot springs. The city's position as a protestant to a 400 acre-feet-a-year commercial hot springs application is heightening the city's interest.
County Flood Control
New Mexico statutes outline the roles of the county board of commission, flood commissioner and emergency flood superintendents in planning for and dealing with floods in counties. NMSA 1978 chapter 4 on counties, article 50 on flood control is analyzed and discussed. Updated 10/27/22
Stuff you need to know, 10.26.22
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: predictions of a La Niña winter here and the damage that New Mexico's next wildfire season may cause