Political considerations, 4.6.24
Wanna know what Trump's social media platform is like now that it is supposedly worth billions, but not inclined to visit? Here's one reporter's account of her recent encounter with the platform's "Truthsayers."
Category Perspectives
Say Venn (diagram)
Venn is enough enough? And, don't even get me started on separation of church and state!
Political considerations, 3.24.24
This year's Oscars show iignited a ferocious debate in Hollywood and well beyond that lluminates the extreme difficulty of achieving consensus about the causes of and solutions to what is happening in Gaza.
Pet Projects
Whether abuse, neglect, adoption, or low-cost spaying and neutering, there are several dedicated groups in Sierra County who focus on providing care and homes for companion animals.
Stuff you need to know, 3.11.24
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Southwestern states are beginning to look to public lands as potential sites for building much-needed, affordable housing. Plus: Recipients of New Mexico's first round of outdoor recreation marketing grants have been announced.
Biased update on the Copper Flat Mine Hearing
While waiting for a decision on the mine's protested application to transfer water rights to their wells for use at Copper Flat, I thought you might be interested in the positions finally taken by all the parties in the trial.
Maurice
I wanted to follow up my last article with a few examples of having fun and expressing passion and creativity with nature writing. Might as well tell a story of natural inspiration. The idea of the Prose, Poetry and Art Exhibition is give students a voice on wilderness.
Money flows from Staten Island to Sierra County to buy property with help from tax deferments
PreReal Investments of Staten Island is buying and fixing up properties around Williamsburg, Truth or Consequences and Elephant Butte with help from a tax-deferment program little used in New Mexico.
Stuff you need to know, 2.13.24
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: a critique of New Mexico's 50-Year Water Action Plan and legislative complications facing the governor's proposed Strategic Water Supply
In the last eighty years
This article is a little meditation beginning with my accumulation of plain stuff and leading to thoughts on ownership, economics, property rights, equality and inequality, and the revolutionary ideas that created this country.
Why
Most of the things in life which bring a smile to our face are simple. There is nothing better than watching the play of toddler or a young pup to remind us of the simple joys.
Stuff you need to know, 2.3.24
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: examples of cooperation among Western states stakeholders for exploring nonlethal approaches to managing predators like wolves