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
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: for those who want "in the weeds" details about bills and issues under consideration by the New Mexico Legislature. Part 8 of this series lays out the ongoing debate among legislators about the kind of alcohol taxes needed to reduce consumption in a state with worst-in-the-nation rates of alcohol-related deaths.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: for those who want "in the weeds" details about bills and issues under consideration by the New Mexico Legislature. Part 7 of this series provides an update on whether the governor's stalled anti-crime and gun violence package can be salvaged before the legislative session ends next week.
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: Three federal immigrant detention facilities in New Mexico are failing to meet basic standards, but Republican Senators with the concurrence of some Democratic allies yesterday rejected a detention ban.
We, the poor rate payers whose water rates have gone up about 80 percent in the last five years, hope the city gets both of these legislative requests, otherwise rates are going to go up even more, according to T or C Mayor Rolf Hechler.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: for those who want "in the weeds" details about bills and issues under consideration by the New Mexico Legislature. Part 6 of this series reports on proposals to lengthen legislative sessions.
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
No disaster relief will be forthcoming from the state, which also precludes any federal disaster relief.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: for those who want "in the weeds" details about bills and issues under consideration by the New Mexico Legislature. Part 5 of this series examines the progress of gun control legislation.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Governor Lujan Grisham unveils her long-awaited water conservation action plan, aimed at ensuring that New Mexicans have adequate H2O for the next five decades.
Three years and the city commission can't figure out whether it's a good idea to sell the electric facility. What they said about the three-year evaluation process is fatuous beyond belief.
