Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Bipartisan legislation introduced last week by New Mexico CD2 Representative Gabe Vasquez seeks to better preserve public access to public lands.
Solid waste rates are wildly unfair. It will take years to make them equitable.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Governor okays new sources of funding and staff support for housing construction, infrastructure-building and community development projects.
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: Measures to clarify and strengthen New Mexico's anti-corruption statute were among the legislation that died in the recently concluded Roundhouse session.
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.
I submitted an IPRA for the engineering document that relates to the city's legislative request last year and this year. Finally, I received a relevant document this year; only three pages long, but enlightening.
“You can fool all of the people some of time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.” Attributed to Abraham Lincoln in The New York Times, August 27, 1887.
What the city commission and chief of police say and what the ballot language says differs. And whether the people can afford to pay for emergency and long-term repairs to the water infrastructure, as well as pay for a "public safety building" has never been asked or answered.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: a roundup of the bills that passed or died during the recently concluded session of the New Mexico Legislature. Plus: a searchable list of the 360 local projects that made it through the legislature and into the 2024 state budget sent to the governor
The city received a $7.5-million grant/loan from USDA for a water project, but it comes with interim-financing requirements that are complicated and expensive. The USDA waits until after construction is completed before it gives the grant or loan. The grant is for $2.7 million and the loan for $4.8 million.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: New Mexico's record-setting 2025 budget has passed both legislative chambers with provisions to prevent future disruptive cuts. It is now on its way to the governor's desk to be signed or modified by line-item vetoes.
