![Statue of Athena inside Nashville's Parthenon, image courtesy of museum's Facebook page](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Statue-of-Athena-inside-Nashvilles-Parthenon-image-courtesy-of-museums-Facebook-page-600x400.jpg)
In 447 BC, when the Parthenon was built, they knew the value of fiduciary transparency in government. Athena's dress was made of gold, in sections, so they could be regularly weighed and recorded, since it was part of the city's treasury that was kept in the public's eye.
![Caja del Rio petroglyphs](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/petroglyphs-e1713542424683.jpg)
The federal government now has new tools to protect public lands and cultural treasurers from depredation. The New Mexico Legislature will again consider unpassed crime bills at a special legislative session to be held in July.
![San Agustin Plains map](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/San-Agustin-Plains-map.png)
Good news and bad news for New Mexico's precious water sources.
![Screenshot from Yvette Herrell's abortion position video](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Herrell-abortion-video-600x332.png)
A recently discovered video may make it harder for New Mexico CD2 candidate Yvette Herrell to mask her once vehemently held anti-choice position.
![Velazquez' self portrait within his famous painting "Las Meninas"](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Velazquez-Las-Meninas.jpg)
The great artist Diego Velazquez painted royalty as they were, often blank-eyed and taken up with amusing themselves with court jesters instead of serious matters of state. There are Velazquez-like parallels with the supposedly democratic T or C city commission.
![Private Equity Risk Index logo](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/private-equity-cropped-e1713198012132.png)
New Mexico places high for risk from consumer predation by private-equity investments in the state.
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Why is New Mexico the only state that has seen a drop in its foreign-born population over a 10-year period?
![Person writing a check](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/check.jpg)
Another four years of 'on-call' contracts that short-circuit city commission and public oversight of capital projects. Department heads have carte blanche to hire architects and engineers behind closed doors.
![Baseball umpire calling runner safe](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Umpire-calling-safe-scaled-e1712941158704-600x432.jpg)
In New Mexico, the majority of seats in both chambers of the legislature are considered safe for one or the other major party, and toss-upraces in which voters have a meaningful say are a rarity.
![VMS](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/VMS-Eve-600x400.jpg)
Why Virgin Galactic has countersued Boeing
![Lora Lucero, a Vote Uncommitted New Mexico organizer](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Lora-Lucero-450x600.jpg)
Progressive activists are encouraging those who wish to register their demand for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to vote "Uncommitted" in New Mexico's Democratic primary.
![Truth or Consequences Senior Center](https://sierracountycitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/T-or-C-senior-center.png)
Information about an upcoming opportunity to share your ideas for and express your concerns about senior services in Sierra County