Stuff you need to know, 8.25.23
Today's intelligence: U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez, congressperson for Sierra County, has announced the recipients of $10 million in federal earmark funding.
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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?
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.
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.
Stuff you need to know, 8.24.23
Today's intelligence: The New Mexico Game and Fish Department is seeking public comment on needed adjustments to cougar and bear hunting regulations.
Stuff you need to know, 8.23.23
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.
Stuff you need to know, 8.21.23
Today's intelligence: Popular New Mexico pundit Joe Monahan sees handwriting on the wall for Virgin Galactic.
Sphinx moth pollinating four-o’clock blooms
This year four-o'clocks are bountiful and so are the sphinx moths which are well adapted to pollinate them.
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.
Stuff you need to know, 8.18.23
Today's intelligence: Congressman Gabe Vasquez introduces legislation to help pay medical bills of New Mexico oil and gas workers injured on the job.
Stuff you need to know, 8.17.23
Today's intelligence: Spaceport America settles a former employee's discrimination lawsuit.
Stuff you need to know, 8.16.23
Today's intelligence: no cuts in Colorado water use predicted for 2024 and an update on the congressional redistricting lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Republican Party