Stuff you need to know, 10.20.23
Today's intelligence: An exploratory program to test the quality and extent of lithium reserves near Lordsburg, New Mexico, is in the permitting stage.
Today's intelligence: An exploratory program to test the quality and extent of lithium reserves near Lordsburg, New Mexico, is in the permitting stage.
Today's intelligence: New Mexico District 35 Senator Crystal Diamond has a new name and surprise campaign finance clout. Plus: U.S. Department of Justice lays out its objections to a federal judge's recommended settlement of the Rio Grande water dispute between New Mexico and Texas.
Today's intelligence: Rebecca Dow is back. Plus: a look at New Mexico's public-private effort to promote workforce development for the space industry.
Today's intelligence: New Mexico will create a new center to capture National Clean Investment Fund monies to boost energy efficiency statewide. Plus: NM CD2 representative Gabe Vasquez hosts listening session on border crossing conditions.
The Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project opens a fund-raising drive to support the Citizen.
Today's intelligence: The redrawing of New Mexico's Congressional District 2 map is ruled lawful—for now.
Today's intelligence: confirmation of unexpectedly advanced age of human footprints discovered in New Mexico's White Sands National Park in 2021
Today's intelligence: why Sierra and Grant Counties have yet to begin Black Fire repair projects
Today's intelligence: wrap-up of testimony in the trial of the New Mexico Republican Party's civil suit charging that the state's new congressional district map is unfairly gerrymandered
Today's intelligence:: President Biden protects the Endangered Species status of an iconic New Mexican grouse.
Today's intelligence: "Marty," New Mexico's sole known moose, is again on the loose.
Today's intelligence: Will financial losses lead to the closure of Deming, New Mexico's 142-year-old newspaper? Plus: The out-of-court settlement of a wrongful death suit brought against Judge Shannon Murdock and the 7th Judicial District Court (which serves Sierra County).