It has been a year since City Manager Angela Gonzales took the reins and just as it was a mystery why she was hired over other applicants it is a mystery what the city commission thinks of her performance.
Read MoreCity Manager Gonzales given raise and another year
Violinist Jack Glatzer in Concert at Grapes Gallery.
Read MoreTonight at Grapes Gallery in TorC
Truth or Consequences has been chosen as the first location for a series of community conversations to garner public feedback on New Mexico's climate resilience plan.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 5.8.24
This gem of a canyon in Grant county was burned in the 2013 Silver Fire then scoured by flood. Yet it is recovering.
Read MoreRailroad Canyon
Little Turkey Creek in Sierra County near Winston is being restored as habitat for the Gila trout, one of the rarest trout species in the U.S.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 5.6.24
In a head-spinning cover story about Donald Trump's dreams of an imperial presidency, Time magazine reports that the biggest mistake Trump says he made in his first term was to be too nice. Mass immigrant deportations and judicial retribution for political opponents and others who he believes have wronged him are at the top of his to-do list, should he win a second term.
Read MorePolitical considerations, 5.2.24
Rubber-stamping is expensive. The Infrastructure Capital Improvements Plan is soon to be adopted by the city commission using its same low-information process. Is it any wonder we have infrastructure that is 60 and more years old and emergency repairs that cost twice as much as planned projects?
Read MoreInfrastructure Capital Improvements Plan—planning ain’t in it
Recent studies finding "forever" chemicals and plutonium in New Mexico's rivers and groundwaters indicate that our water pollution problem has reached crisis proportions.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 4.29.24
Why did Las Cruces Democrat Nathan Small receive a windfall of political donations last year, and what other patterns can be discerned from the recently disclosed campaign contributions made to New Mexico legislators in the final quarter of 2023?
Read MorePolitical considerations, 4.26.24
We don't know how the first $790,000 tranche was used and now the second tranche is to be issued. There was talk that the G. O. bond money would only be used to "leverage" or match grant/loan requirements. No reports, no follow-up.
Read MoreSecond tranche of $3M in general obligation bonds goes the way of the first tranche
New Mexico political pundit Joe Monahan predicts the end is near for Virgin Galactic.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 4.24.24
In 447 BC, when the Parthenon was built, they knew the value of fiduciary transparency in government. Athena's dress was made of gold, in sections, so they could be regularly weighed and recorded, since it was part of the city's treasury that was kept in the public's eye.
Read MoreT or C first budget workshop—baby steps