Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Southwestern states are beginning to look to public lands as potential sites for building much-needed, affordable housing. Plus: Recipients of New Mexico's first round of outdoor recreation marketing grants have been announced.
While waiting for a decision on the mine's protested application to transfer water rights to their wells for use at Copper Flat, I thought you might be interested in the positions finally taken by all the parties in the trial.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: a roundup of bills imposing tighter regulation of oil and gas producers that died during the recently concluded session of New Mexico Legislature
Today's intelligence from state and/or national Reporting: public meeting on Spaceport America master plan announced for early next month in Truth or Consequences
The Citizen reports to readers on donations, how we spend what readers contribute, how much we have, and how long it will last, a forward-looking perspective.
PreReal Investments of Staten Island is buying and fixing up properties around Williamsburg, Truth or Consequences and Elephant Butte with help from a tax-deferment program little used in New Mexico.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: a critique of New Mexico's 50-Year Water Action Plan and legislative complications facing the governor's proposed Strategic Water Supply
This article is a little meditation beginning with my accumulation of plain stuff and leading to thoughts on ownership, economics, property rights, equality and inequality, and the revolutionary ideas that created this country.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: examination of campaign finance reports filed by lobbyists for 2023 documents the "generosity" of big oil and gas companies to New Mexico lawmakers
In the State Engineer's Hearing on the transfer of water rights for use in operating Copper Flat Mine, lawyers representing local protestors filed their written arguments against the transfer.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: the issues that will dominate the abbreviated 2024 New Mexico Legislature session that begins tomorrow