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.
Hooray. Fairness under the city's zoning code was in evidence at the Dec. 14 city commission meeting, thanks to Mayor Pro Tem Rolf Hechler. He went through his findings of fact before ruling, as required by law, eschewing opinion.
The next city manager must hold to a course correction, reversing 60 years of water, wastewater and electric infrastructure neglect--Bruce Swingle is leaving in May.
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.
Three years after being invited to collaborate with Mexican wolf recovery program the county commission decided it is in the county’s best interest to join. The commission discussed but declined to submit comment to a letter from the USDA informing of plans for feral cattle removal in the Gila Wilderness.
Today's must-read reporting: the dimensions of the humanitarian crisis brewing at the El Paso border crossing and the latest data about New Mexicans' unaddressed and growing alcohol consumption problem
The $3 million to $5 million to repair Cantrell Dam isn't worth it, the engineer said. Even at full function, it doesn't provide flood protection against three-inch intense-rain events. The engineer recommended "breaching" the dam, not repairing it, until City Commissioner Merry Jo Fahl said breaching would "scare" people.
Is our perception of death and of human life changing because of the Covid-19 pandemic?
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.
Today's intelligence: The Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act that is heading to President Biden's desk to be signed into law has roots in the theft of a ceremonial shield from New Mexico's Acoma Pueblo.
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: A second attempt to create a special hospital taxing district for Sierra Vista Hospital is announced, and more details emerge about Truth or Consequences's handling of the animal cruelty complaint against T or C Mayor Amanda Forrister and her husband Lane.
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: New Mexico's utility regulatory commission set to become an appointed body after legal challenge fails.
