Stuff you need to know, 5.12.23
Today's intelligence: cautiously optimistic predictions of the impact of the end of Title 42 on New Mexico's Mesilla Valley
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Rooster Blackspur to perform in Hillsboro
Don’t miss this special performance on June 4th at the Hillsboro Community Center.
Truth or Consequences city commission approves massive draft budget—$51 million
City commissioners breezed through budget talks scheduled for two days but cut to one day. Nevertheless, its an insane amount of money to be spent for a city with a population of 6,042.
Stuff you need to know, 5.10.23
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses a nuclear waste storage facility for southern New Mexico in the face of vociferous opposition from state officials and environmental activists. Virgin Galactic continues to tell investors and the media that it will soon begin commercial flights.
Star Party at Black Range Lodge
Stargazers are invited to join the party for "Constellations of Ancient Cultures" with John T. Stocke on Saturday May 30 in Kingston at the Black Range Lodge.
Call for New Mexico young artists
Announcing the launch of the New Mexico Indivisible Young Artists Fellowship which will culminate in TorC in October of this year. Seeking New Mexico artists ages 18 to 30 years old.
Stuff you need to know, 5.8.23
Water pollution will now be addressed at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamagordo, allowing closed test wells to reopen and vital research to continue.
Stuff you need to know, 5.4.23
Today's intelligence: Can New Mexico's new bill granting the state permitting control over nuclear waste storage facilities survive a court challenge from the federal government? What will it take to get the feds to clean up a water pollution problem at Kirtland Air Force Base?
Stuff you need to know, 5.3.23
An assessment by New York Times critic Roberta Smith of MOMA New York's current Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition, the museum's first extended look since 1946 at the ground-breaking artist who made her permanent home in New Mexico
Municipal Court’s elimination approved by NM Supreme Court
A check and balance on the TorC city commission and city staff is erased with the elimination of the municipal court. The people's and Judge Beatrice Sanders's voice were quashed in the process.
Stuff you need to know, 5.2.23
Another failed space launch and the crumbling of New Mexico's culturally significant adobe churches
Stuff you need to know, 5.1.23
Today's intelligence: Last spring's Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon disaster has exposed the shortcomings of FEMA's response to wildfires.