The city's budget for the next fiscal year is being drafted. The people may want to push back on how it's been handled in the past. Hiring outside contractors indicates a lack of in-house competence and is expensive. Is the public paying more than it should for its local government?
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Fourteen projects in New Mexico's Second Congressional District put forward by U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez will receive funding as allocated in the six appropriation bills recently passed by Congress and signed by the president.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Eighty-one community projects in New Mexico put forward by U.S. Senator Martin S. Heinrich will receive funding as allocated in the six appropriation bills recently passed by Congress and signed by the president.
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: Seven-state negotiations over future Colorado River water distribution cuts have stalled again.
Today's intelligence from state and/or national reporting: Governor Lujan Grisham visited Sierra Vista Hospital in Truth or Consequences yesterday to sign four bills aimed at stabilizing rural hospitals and improving the accessibility and affordability of health care in New Mexico.
Activity at the county chambers included accepting funds from El Rio Sol to allow transmission lines across the county as well as permission for the company to utilize county roads during planning, construction and maintenance of the lines. The flood commissioner discussed the department's financial audit and permit problems.
