Gary Whitehead is selected as city manager
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.
Category Analyses
Pay raise still puts T or C police salaries way below nearby cities and county
Pathetic pay raise for T or C police is not enough to stop the revolving door.
Not even trying to look impartial–elected officials and county manager nominate Sierra County Arroyo Flood Control District directors
Fair and equitable distribution of the new flood control tax? Most likely ranchers will continue to benefit much more than city dwellers.
City manager job will probably go to a local
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.
What you need to know, January 19, 2025: Big Pharm, little Pharma, and in between
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.
Censure attempt based on house of cards
A house divided cannot stand, and the Regional Spaceport District board is divided between build-it-and-they-will-come believers and show-me-your-business-plan realists.
T or C to pay $87,000 in damages to woman hit by car being chased by police
Two and a half years ago Robbie Montgomery was hit by a car being chased by a T or C police officer near Bullocks grocery store.The city will pay her $87,000 in damages.
What you need to know, January 7, 2024: Malpractice insurance threatens New Mexico’s doctors and hospitals
Doctors are leaving New Mexico. Hospitals essential to small, rural counties (and that is most of them in the state, including Sierra County), find it difficult to stay in the black. The Searchlight New Mexico reporter Ed Williams thinks the cause is malpractice insurance. His analysis has started a controversy.
“Why even have an RR-I zone?”
The city hands out variances like candy, regularly punching holes in the zoning code.
Special election on police building’s financing just got really complicated
The people are bound to be confused by the March 4 special election. That may be the point. Low-information voters may pass higher tax and debt measures without knowing it.
Any qualified, savvy volunteers out there who want to be a flood-control director?
Five "directors" will be appointed to run the new flood-control taxing district that was approved by Sierra Countians Nov. 5. These volunteer directors will serve about a year, until the electorate can choose their representatives during local elections, November 2025.
Will spaceport GRT go to new capital projects?
The uses of the spaceport gross receipts tax keeps growing and expanding, as does the spaceport's need for it. Will local taxes forever subsidize the spaceport? Dona Ana County's especially?