A leadership vacuum at the top trickles down to the people having to pay repeatedly for emergency and then long-term repairs.
The state was very good to the city this legislative session, obviously recognizing its waterline crisis.
NMDOH will be offering free well water quality testing to 100 local private wells. See if you qualify.
A great exchange occurred among residents, Spaceport America staff and the company working on its master plan.
Join the Socorro Peace Vigil in a march for Peace in Palestine.
Solid waste rates are wildly unfair. It will take years to make them equitable.
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
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.
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.
