Does the State of New Mexico prefer Trump to other presidential candidates?
A second election-code violation within a week on behalf of a Republican candidate.
Category Analyses
Solid waste rates going up Dec. 1
T or C's solid waste department has gone from a $1.1-million operation to a $2.8-million operation since 2017. Limiting services to T or C and Williamsburg should be considered.
Dow sent cease-and-desist letter for campaign ad accusing her rival of stealing taxpayer money
This is not the first time Rebecca Dow has been accused of spreading false information and lies and dirty campaign tactics.
Does the Government of Sierra County have a favored candidate?
A sharp-eyed citizen sent me this picture of a Crystal Diamond Brantley campaign sign hung on the county fairgrounds fence.
Campaign signs are not allowed on public property, if we are indeed still a democratic republic and not an authoritarian government.
Recent developments regarding broadband access in New Mexico
I am sponsoring this analysis article by Dan Warren, one of the Citizen's behind-the-scenes sources who has technical and science savvy. He avidly follows space and science news, including the space industry's winners and losers and how they affect our lives, such as equitable access to broadband.
Commodifying healthcare and chiles
My cousin, a nephrologist, says that commodification of medicine has turned American doctors into contractual slaves, indentured servants. Thinking about this, I realized that not many of us actually understand what commodification means and why it is harmful for healthcare as a system. This is my explanation.
$540K study/audit of city-owned electric facility—instead of hiring a competent director
An outside study will not fix T or C's management problems.
WSPI 2—another $10m water project, another rate increase
Truth or Consequences Mayor Rolf Hechler sees the city's increasing number of grant/loans with USDA as "success." Can we afford to keep cramming water projects into the pipeline with no apparent coordination or reasoning to their order and no explanation to constituents?
T or C City Commissioners “don’t understand” police-building referendum
You would think that the city commission would make sure to build public consensus on the purchase of a new police building after facing and losing two referendums before going forward with a third scheme.
Who’s the fairest of them all?
In September, the Commonwealth Fund released its eighth comparative report on health care systems in 10 wealthy and comparable nations, the US among them. How did we do and why?
Cloudburst, funding the Citizen, and communications between life forms
Readers of the Citizen have gifted us with a cloudburst of generosity, and we are grateful for the healing waters in this desert land. This process of social relationship is an act of communication, which has just been discovered to function through all life forms.
Appeal to T or C and Village leadership
The water and sewer systems are dying carcasses that are attracting vulture-like opportunists. Meanwhile, the people are paying ever-increasing water and sewer fees. Who is protecting us from the vultures? No one. The city needs to hire an engineer who can coordinate and communicate. No mumblers or wonks.