Today's intelligence: A resolution has finally been reached between New Mexico and Texas over water unlawfully released from Elephant Butte Reservoir more than ten years ago.
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.
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.
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.
Water conservation has been a legal requirement in New Mexico for several decades, but until now, the courts have never discussed or defined the requirement. Yesterday, the Appeals Court gave substance to law by affirming a lower court decision based on conservation principles.
Today's must-read reporting: a preview of a new documentary about domestic animal neglect; New Mexico gets a tourism boost from Lonely Planet; and Las Cruces-Albuquerque flights to debut in January.
I am introducing a series of articles in which I view and weigh our present world in light of the concept of entropy, and in this first essay, I explain what entropy is and how it allows us to see the effects of everything that we do.
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: NASA drops greenhouse gas monitoring program and possible "dead pool" crisis next summer facing Colorado River ecosystem.
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: update on the public-private initiative to bring broadband access to all of Sierra County
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: predictions of a La Niña winter here and the damage that New Mexico's next wildfire season may cause
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: an analysis of the merits of a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November to increase annual distributions for education taken from New Mexico's Land Grant Permanent Fund.
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: the rise and stumble of Special Purpose Acquisition Company investment vehicles such as was used to help fund Virgin Galactic.
