A sharp-eyed citizen sent me this picture of a Crystal Diamond Brantley campaign sign hung on the county fairgrounds fence.
Campaign signs are not allowed on public property, if we are indeed still a democratic republic and not an authoritarian government.
Read MoreDoes the Government of Sierra County have a favored candidate?I am sponsoring this analysis article by Dan Warren, one of the Citizen's behind-the-scenes sources who has technical and science savvy. He avidly follows space and science news, including the space industry's winners and losers and how they affect our lives, such as equitable access to broadband.
Read MoreRecent developments regarding broadband access in New MexicoMy cousin, a nephrologist, says that commodification of medicine has turned American doctors into contractual slaves, indentured servants. Thinking about this, I realized that not many of us actually understand what commodification means and why it is harmful for healthcare as a system. This is my explanation.
Read MoreCommodifying healthcare and chilesAn outside study will not fix T or C's management problems.
Read More$540K study/audit of city-owned electric facility—instead of hiring a competent directorTruth or Consequences Mayor Rolf Hechler sees the city's increasing number of grant/loans with USDA as "success." Can we afford to keep cramming water projects into the pipeline with no apparent coordination or reasoning to their order and no explanation to constituents?
Read MoreWSPI 2—another $10m water project, another rate increaseSusan Dunlap, of New Mexico Political Report, reports on the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee's discussion of the state of New Mexico's hospitals. In previous posts I have presented readings about the national health care system. Here, with this republication, we look at specific issues closer to home.
Read MoreWhat you need to know, September 29, 2024: “New Mexico in critical nursing shortage”You would think that the city commission would make sure to build public consensus on the purchase of a new police building after facing and losing two referendums before going forward with a third scheme.
Read MoreT or C City Commissioners “don’t understand” police-building referendumIn September, the Commonwealth Fund released its eighth comparative report on health care systems in 10 wealthy and comparable nations, the US among them. How did we do and why?
Read MoreWho’s the fairest of them all?Readers of the Citizen have gifted us with a cloudburst of generosity, and we are grateful for the healing waters in this desert land. This process of social relationship is an act of communication, which has just been discovered to function through all life forms.
Read MoreCloudburst, funding the Citizen, and communications between life formsThe growing threat of violence against county officials who count votes has Sierra County planning to install bulletproof doors and windows to the clerk's office.
Read MoreBulletproofing county clerk office won’t start until after contentious electionThe Swing Dusters will be at Hillsboro Community Center on Saturday October 5th
Read MoreWestern Swing Band in HillsboroIn Kingston on Saturday evening September 21
Read MoreFree Irish Music Concert