![Spent nuclear fuel cask](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/spent-nuclear-fuel-cask-e1679160243692.jpg)
Today's intelligence: The state's Democratic leadership erects a roadblock to the construction of a proposed facility to "temporarily" store spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico.
![Poster for Concert in Hillsboro](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Scott-and-Johanna-Hongell-Darsee-concert-463x600.jpg)
Join the Hillsboro community Saturday, March 18 from 2:00-4:00 for a concert of Scandinavian and Celtic songs featuring Scott and Johanna Hongell-Darsee. Your donations will help the community center purchase an AED.
![My Body/My Choice graphic](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/my-body-my-choice.jpg)
Today's intelligence: rights to reproductive health care and gender-affirming care strengthened in New Mexico
![bar shelves with alcohol bottles](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/bar-alcohol-600x400.jpeg)
Today's intelligence: the lastest on a proposed state alcohol tax, the state budget, an attempt by the EPA to increase clean water standards and the deepening financial troubles of a Virgin Galactic sister space-launch company
![Silhouette of woman's head](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/womans-head-in-silhouette.png)
The city commission held two closed-door sessions to determine who would be the next city manager, directing staff in a brief open session on March 8 to offer Angela R. Gonzales a contract. She accepted and starts April 3.
![New Mexico State Senate chambers](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/New-Mexico-State-Senate-600x450.jpg)
Today's intelligence: an update on the Roundhouse's progress in passing important reform legislation
![mother and father holding baby](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/family-leave-400x600.jpg)
Today's intelligence: objections that tabled a paid family leave bill for New Mexico
![budgeting illustration](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/budgeting-graphic-600x400.jpg)
Today's intelligence: an overview of the multibillion-dollar state budget passed by the New Mexico Senate yesterday
![Looking out over the wild lands of Kingston, New Mexico](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Wild-lands-of-Kingston-600x450.jpg)
Imagine the place you feel most comfortable in, the place you call home. Imagine that place altered overnight. This is what our quaint mountain town of Kingston, New Mexico recently experienced.
![locked gate with a no trespassing sign across dirt road](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_6021-scaled-e1678029581832-600x555.jpg)
A gate with lock and no trespassing sign has recently been installed in Kingston, blocking access to Forest Road 40E. Historic images of Middle Percha Creek show what lies beyond this gate.
![The Republican Party of Sierra County's political ad posted on its Facebook page and in the Sierra County Sentinel](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Jaramillo-ad-rep-pty-sc-mar-1-facebk-600x314.jpg)
The Republican Party of Sierra County is hoping that you will believe that protecting LGBTQ persons' rights and women's and girl's rights to seek or not to seek an abortion are somehow an impingement of parents' and conscientious-objectors' rights. It's confusing, which is the point.
![Person receiving COVID vaccination](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/COVID-vaccination-scaled-e1678118995594-523x600.jpg)
Today's intelligence: The end of free COVID vaccines, tests and treatments for New Mexicans is near.