![Rebecca Dow, image courtesy New Mexico Legislature website](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/HDOWR.jpg)
This is not the first time Rebecca Dow has been accused of spreading false information and lies and dirty campaign tactics.
Read MoreDow sent cease-and-desist letter for campaign ad accusing her rival of stealing taxpayer money![Crystal Diamond Brantley campaign sign on government property, image courtesy of an anonymous tipster](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Brantley-sign-on-SC-prop-600x450.jpg)
A sharp-eyed citizen sent me this picture of a Crystal Diamond Brantley campaign sign hung on the county fairgrounds fence.
Campaign signs are not allowed on public property, if we are indeed still a democratic republic and not an authoritarian government.
Read MoreDoes the Government of Sierra County have a favored candidate?![Starlink logo, courtesy Wikipedia](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Starlink-logo-courtesy-Wikipedia.jpg)
I am sponsoring this analysis article by Dan Warren, one of the Citizen's behind-the-scenes sources who has technical and science savvy. He avidly follows space and science news, including the space industry's winners and losers and how they affect our lives, such as equitable access to broadband.
Read MoreRecent developments regarding broadband access in New Mexico![Image of a golden caduceus, the symbol of medicine.](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/28903697_7514751-600x600.jpg)
My cousin, a nephrologist, says that commodification of medicine has turned American doctors into contractual slaves, indentured servants. Thinking about this, I realized that not many of us actually understand what commodification means and why it is harmful for healthcare as a system. This is my explanation.
Read MoreCommodifying healthcare and chiles![Truth or Consequences' electric yard](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/T-or-C-electric-facility-yard-600x450.jpg)
An outside study will not fix T or C's management problems.
Read More$540K study/audit of city-owned electric facility—instead of hiring a competent director![Faucet dripping](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/faucet1-566x600.png)
Truth or Consequences Mayor Rolf Hechler sees the city's increasing number of grant/loans with USDA as "success." Can we afford to keep cramming water projects into the pipeline with no apparent coordination or reasoning to their order and no explanation to constituents?
Read MoreWSPI 2—another $10m water project, another rate increase![Hospital staff at work](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot_29-9-2024_151020_nmpoliticalreport.com_-600x402.jpeg)
Susan Dunlap, of New Mexico Political Report, reports on the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee's discussion of the state of New Mexico's hospitals. In previous posts I have presented readings about the national health care system. Here, with this republication, we look at specific issues closer to home.
Read MoreWhat you need to know, September 29, 2024: “New Mexico in critical nursing shortage”![Black and white thinking vs. critical thinking](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/B-W-thinking.jpg)
You would think that the city commission would make sure to build public consensus on the purchase of a new police building after facing and losing two referendums before going forward with a third scheme.
Read MoreT or C City Commissioners “don’t understand” police-building referendum![Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing of the Vitruvius' description of a well proportioned man.](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/530px-Da_Vinci_Vitruve_Luc_Viatour-441x600.jpg)
In September, the Commonwealth Fund released its eighth comparative report on health care systems in 10 wealthy and comparable nations, the US among them. How did we do and why?
Read MoreWho’s the fairest of them all?![Cloudburst](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/DSC00353-2-600x399.jpg)
Readers of the Citizen have gifted us with a cloudburst of generosity, and we are grateful for the healing waters in this desert land. This process of social relationship is an act of communication, which has just been discovered to function through all life forms.
Read MoreCloudburst, funding the Citizen, and communications between life forms![](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_5681-600x450.jpg)
The growing threat of violence against county officials who count votes has Sierra County planning to install bulletproof doors and windows to the clerk's office.
Read MoreBulletproofing county clerk office won’t start until after contentious election![](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/SSWING-DUSTERS-LEAD-600x575.jpg)
The Swing Dusters will be at Hillsboro Community Center on Saturday October 5th
Read MoreWestern Swing Band in Hillsboro