I link to and comment on three articles about medical care: 1) the death of a child from measles; 2) meddling with the VA's health system in ways that will reduce available health care for veterans; 3) NM's debate on excessive malpractice insurance costs.
The first board of directors will have no tax money in hand for a year. That means they have to scrounge for legal help to set up bylaws, administrative help to notice their meetings, draft agendas and minutes. This makes them vulnerable to outside influences, like the county.
This posting republishes an original article by Amy Maxmen in KFF Health News. The article also appeared in CBS News. Since the federal government and some state governments no longer concern themselves with containing infectious diseases, more people will get infected, some die, just as in the great old days.
I link to Searchlight New Mexico's article which interviews three people recently fired from the Forest Service. I follow with an opinion piece discussing the continual firing of civil servants as the product of a new idea of government, not imagined in the country's past.
Looks like HSLD is walking away pretty bruised, having expended nearly $5 million in land purchase, option agreement, engineering and well development and getting $100,300 in settlement from the city.
I was deeply impressed by new Truth or Consequences City Manager Gary Whitehead's response to my question on whether the city was violating the Open Meetings Act. It changed a misconception I had held to for years.
Director Mark Shapiro will be at the El Cortez theater to promote his movie "Downwind".
The City of T or C's third referendum on the purchase and renovation of a police building will not be held, but the people were snookered anyway.
The three-day weekend of February 21-23 will see the return of the hugely popular MeTeORiC Festival event in Truth or Consequences. Check out the full schedule of performances.
Locally-produced film "Hell or Hot Water" to be shown at El Cortez Theater on February 27th
New City Manager Gary Whitehead is a very good communicator, which was put to the test his first city commission meeting.
Want to know the details of the new city manager's contract? A cumbersome synonym instead of city manager is one detail.