Stuff you need to know, 1.3.23
Today's intelligence: high-speed rail proposed for New Mexico; wildfire recovery monies go undistributed in southern New Mexico; and Sierra County ranks poorly in life expectancy rates.
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Preview of county commission meeting for January 6, 2023
The Sierra county commission will hold their first meeting of 2023 on Friday, January 6. A public hearing to consider an ordinance that will provide for a rebate on property taxes for low income residents of the county will be held at 9:45 a.m.
Snow!
Happy New Year!
Assaying Entropy VI: Democracy in America
The Constitution created a government around the arguments about democracy, but it did not resolve those conflicts. The resulting ambiguity allowed traditional hierarchical, undemocratic structures, institutions, and values to inform American life. Those hierarchical ideas still dominate American social thinking today resulting in a complex and often self-contradictory identity.
A wilderness in our backyard
Those of us who call southwestern New Mexico our home, are very fortunate to have two very special places totally over 755,000 acres just a short distance from home. The Gila and Aldo Leopold Wildernesses are wild, rugged and nearby.
Assaying Entropy V: Pause
Looking back over the series of essays called "Assaying Entropy," I summarize what has been said: why the topics so far covered are a continuous investigation of loss and time, how that process of thinking got to the question of democracy; and where that may be going.
A hike with views
I love to hike up through open landscape. The reward...fantastic views...
Assaying Entropy IV: Covid and America
Some aspects of American society might make us more prone to what psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls fast thinking and thus more prone to make mistakes in judgment when it comes to complex issues like Covid.
PAWA granted standing in local water litigation
In the hearing on the application to transfer water rights to wells in Caballo for use at Copper Flat Mine, the hearing examiner has decided that Percha-Animas Water Association has standing to appear as a protestant against the granting of the application.
This ol’ bag of bones
What do you see when you look out over a landscape? When you gaze or glance at somebody? Do you glance or do you really LOOK and wonder?
Ice crystals on wood
Very cold mornings (10ºF) will produce ice crystals. Once the sun hits it they all disappear into thin air. If you are a fan of ice formations check out the latest posting on
http://blackrange.org/the-black-range-naturalist/
Go to chapter " ICE"
Catch them being good: Mayor Pro Tem Rolf Hechler makes findings of fact
Hooray. Fairness under the city's zoning code was in evidence at the Dec. 14 city commission meeting, thanks to Mayor Pro Tem Rolf Hechler. He went through his findings of fact before ruling, as required by law, eschewing opinion.