Today's intelligence: The Albuquerque stretch of the Rio Grande is expected to run dry again this year. Plus: a report on public comment about bear and cougar hunting at last Friday's New Mexico Game Commission meeting
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.29.23
Today's intelligence: U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez, congressperson for Sierra County, has announced the recipients of $10 million in federal earmark funding.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.25.23What is behind the reel of cable left on the roadside and rumors that a property owner was prohibiting access to string the cable on power poles?
Read MoreEthos hits snag in DSL projectIn the 2015 litigation brought by PAWA members against New Mexico Copper Corporation's claims to ownership of over 7,000 afy, the Adjudication Court has granted the mine 184.2 AFY rights in wells it originally declared abandoned.
Read MoreMore on Copper Flat Mine Water: The Other LitigationThe administrative hearing on New Mexico Copper Corporation's application to transfer water rights from near El Paso to their production wells in Caballo, near Hwy. 152, to use at Copper Flat Mine concludes with a strong showing by state agencies opposing the transfer.
Read MoreWater Hearing V: Third Week
Today's intelligence: The New Mexico Game and Fish Department is seeking public comment on needed adjustments to cougar and bear hunting regulations.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.24.23
Today's intelligence: An open letter to the residents of Truth or Consequences, written and posted downtown anonymously, is reposted here to stimulate a vigorous civic assessment of the accuracy of the letter's allegations about the alarming mismanagement of the city's water and wastewater departments.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.23.23
Today's intelligence: Popular New Mexico pundit Joe Monahan sees handwriting on the wall for Virgin Galactic.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.21.23
This year four-o'clocks are bountiful and so are the sphinx moths which are well adapted to pollinate them.
Read MoreSphinx moth pollinating four-o’clock bloomsI give a biased but, I hope, interesting report of what happened this past week in the OSE hearing on opposition to the transfer of water rights for use at Copper Flat Mine. PAWA and the Ladder Ranch presented their cases.
Read MoreWater Hearing IV: Second Week
Today's intelligence: Congressman Gabe Vasquez introduces legislation to help pay medical bills of New Mexico oil and gas workers injured on the job.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.18.23
Today's intelligence: Spaceport America settles a former employee's discrimination lawsuit.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.17.23