![Jeff Apodaca](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Jeff-Apodaca-487x600.jpg)
Who's funding Albuquerque businessman Jeff Apodaca's new PAC, whose mission is to support pro-business moderate candidates for the New Mexico legislature?
![City of Truth or Consequences' logo from its Facebook page](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/T-or-C-logo.jpg)
It has been a year since City Manager Angela Gonzales took the reins and just as it was a mystery why she was hired over other applicants it is a mystery what the city commission thinks of her performance.
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Violinist Jack Glatzer in Concert at Grapes Gallery.
![Santa Clara Pueblo acequia](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Acequia-600x577.png)
Truth or Consequences has been chosen as the first location for a series of community conversations to garner public feedback on New Mexico's climate resilience plan.
![Sparse trees leafing and ponderosas along Gallinas creek.](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/railroad-Canyon-600x450.jpg)
This gem of a canyon in Grant county was burned in the 2013 Silver Fire then scoured by flood. Yet it is recovering.
![Gila trout](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Gila-trout-1-600x400.jpg)
Little Turkey Creek in Sierra County near Winston is being restored as habitat for the Gila trout, one of the rarest trout species in the U.S.
![Time magazine's cover story on Trump](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Time-Trump-headline-600x576.png)
In a head-spinning cover story about Donald Trump's dreams of an imperial presidency, Time magazine reports that the biggest mistake Trump says he made in his first term was to be too nice. Mass immigrant deportations and judicial retribution for political opponents and others who he believes have wronged him are at the top of his to-do list, should he win a second term.
![Rubber-stamping is quicker but more expensive than planning.](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/rubber-stamp-priority-scaled-1-600x421.jpg)
Rubber-stamping is expensive. The Infrastructure Capital Improvements Plan is soon to be adopted by the city commission using its same low-information process. Is it any wonder we have infrastructure that is 60 and more years old and emergency repairs that cost twice as much as planned projects?
![polluted water with plastic bottle and fish](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/water-pollution-600x450.jpg)
Recent studies finding "forever" chemicals and plutonium in New Mexico's rivers and groundwaters indicate that our water pollution problem has reached crisis proportions.
![Nathan Small, New Mexico House representative for District 36](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Nathan-Small-600x559.png)
Why did Las Cruces Democrat Nathan Small receive a windfall of political donations last year, and what other patterns can be discerned from the recently disclosed campaign contributions made to New Mexico legislators in the final quarter of 2023?
![Chris Muirhead, photo from Modrall Sperling's website](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Muirhead-Christopher-430x230-1.jpg)
We don't know how the first $790,000 tranche was used and now the second tranche is to be issued. There was talk that the G. O. bond money would only be used to "leverage" or match grant/loan requirements. No reports, no follow-up.
![New Mexico political pundit Joe Monahan](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Joe-Monahan-e1713972630483-552x600.jpg)
New Mexico political pundit Joe Monahan predicts the end is near for Virgin Galactic.