What you need to know, March 24, 2025: Medicare and Medicare Advantage coming up.

I am posting a link to an article on why we have Medicare, how private health insurance attacked Medicare, how Medicare Advantage turned Medicare into private profit at the expense of patient health, and the probable end of Medicare under its new director. I add my opinionated comments

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Musk Chainsaw IV: Frauds and “fraudsters”

Several thousand people in Sierra County receive Social Security checks every month. Elon Musk's DOG-es retrieved personal information from Social Security's computer system. A court ordered that breech of government security stopped. In response, Social Security threated to shut the whole system down. Now the Commerce Secretary has weighed in.

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Special New Mexico Humanities Council event – Visionary Voices – Then and Now

Please join us for a very special event to be held April 12, 2025 in Albuquerque, NM and on April 13, 2025 in Las Cruces, NM. Three very influential, historical conservationists, John Muir, Aldo Leopold and Teddy Roosevelt will discuss the Conservation and Ethical issues of their day.

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The Water Security Act: Water doesn’t come from the tap

A bit of water in Animas Creek.

The state has reopened the comment period on its draft Rules and Regulations on Regional Water Security Councils. This article explains what this means, why it is important, and why we should all engage in these new entities of grass-roots self-government. Bottom line: water is your life.

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Musk Chainsaw II: Isleta Pueblo sues the Bureau of Indian Affairs over firings

An inexpensive chainsaw for sale on the Temu.com site.

This posting continues my analysis of the federal government's cost cutting actions by looking at the harm done to two native American universities and their students as a result of indiscriminate and across-the-board firings of staff that threaten their accreditations as universities.

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