Black Fire plume
Plume from 2022's Black Fire in southern New Mexico. Source: National Wildfire Coordinating Group

Stuff you need to know, 1.3.23

“No bills for southern New Mexico Black Fire victims yet”
by Megan Gleason, Source NM
February 2, 2023

New Mexico Senator Crystal Diamond (R-Elephant Butte), who represents Sierra and Hildalgo Counties, says that if Black Fire recovery monies aren’t simply allocated in this year’s budget, she will sponsor a bill to put aside that money, to be taken from the state’s $3.6 billion budget surplus. Senator Siah Correa Hemphill (D-Silver City), who represents Grant and Catron Counties, is sponsoring legislation that could help fast-track repairs in any rural communities after disasters.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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