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Stuff you need to know, 3.1.24

“Bipartisan legislation aims to curb sales of public lands”
by Hannah Grover, NM Political Report
February 2024

U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez, whose New Mexico congressional district includes Sierra County, has teamed with former secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and current Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke of Montana to sponsor the Public Lands in Public Hands Act. The legislation requires federal entities to receive congressional approval before they can sell public lands that are accessible to the public or are contiguous with publicly accessible lands or lands owned by state, county or local governments and can be accessed through a public right-of-way, waterway or trail system.

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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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