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Stuff you need to know, 8.29.23

Satellite image of Rio Grande showing dry stretch through Albuquerque on July 25, 2022.

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

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  • Diana Tittle
  • August 29, 2023
  • Economy, Environment, Government, Social Issues
  • News

Stuff you need to know, 8.25.23

Sierra County (NM) Regional Dispatch Authority

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, 8.25.23
  • Diana Tittle
  • August 25, 2023
  • Government
  • Perspectives

Ethos hits snag in DSL project

What 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 project
  • Debora Nicoll
  • August 24, 2023
  • Economy, Education, Health, Social Issues
  • News

More on Copper Flat Mine Water: The Other Litigation

In 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 Litigation
  • Max Yeh
  • August 24, 2023
  • Economy, Environment, Government, Health, Statewide News & Information
  • Perspectives

Water Hearing V: Third Week

The 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.

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  • Max Yeh
  • August 24, 2023
  • Economy, Environment, Government, Health, Politics, Social Issues
  • Perspectives

Stuff you need to know, 8.24.23

Mountain lion at night

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
  • Diana Tittle
  • August 24, 2023
  • Environment, Government, History/Natural History
  • Perspectives

Stuff you need to know, 8.23.23

red flag graphic

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
  • Diana Tittle
  • August 23, 2023
  • Government
  • Perspectives

Stuff you need to know, 8.21.23

Promotional graphic for Virgin Galactic

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
  • Diana Tittle
  • August 21, 2023
  • Economy
  • Visually Speaking

Sphinx moth pollinating four-o’clock blooms

the sphinx moth has intricate markings of white, brown and black lines and dots with some pink under the wings.

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 blooms
  • Véronique De Jaegher
  • August 19, 2023
  • History/Natural History, Visuals
  • Perspectives

Water Hearing IV:  Second Week

I 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.

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  • Max Yeh
  • August 18, 2023
  • Economy, Environment, Health, Politics, Social Issues, Statewide News & Information
  • News

Stuff you need to know, 8.18.23

Congressman Gabe Vasquez addressing Hobbs, New Mexico, audience

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
  • Diana Tittle
  • August 18, 2023
  • Government, Health
  • News

Stuff you need to know, 8.17.23

Spaceport America recruitment ad

Today's intelligence: Spaceport America settles a former employee's discrimination lawsuit.

Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.17.23
  • Diana Tittle
  • August 17, 2023
  • Social Issues
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