City Manager Bruce Swingle’s attempt to educate the Truth or Consequences City Commission about the urgent need to transition from an “electric company running a city” to a government that operates for and by the people will take time.
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Truth or Consequences has advertised for police officers since July 7, with no response. As an inducement, the city commission passed a resolution setting policy on take home vehicles that requires area residency for city employees but carves out an exception for police officers.
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The county-supported project to deliver broadband access to rural residents via fiber optic infrastructure has met with an unexpected hitch: utility poles are too short to support the needed cables. The county commission voted this week to allocate all of the county’s American Rescue Plan Act funds to addressing the problem.
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The New Mexico Department of Transportation will start construction of two roundabouts on North Date Street in Truth or Consequences next summer, while other safety improvements to three traffic corridors in the city are under discussion.
Roundabouts and other traffic safety improvements for T or C are moving ahead Read More »
Chief of Police Victor Rodriguez said he could not comment on any aspect of Baker’s departure. Recent city commission meeting agendas disclosed Baker’s involvement in threatened or pending litigation against the City of Truth or Consequences.
Deputy Chief Erica Baker no longer with T or C Police Department Read More »
The Sun found that the announcement contained a mixture of falsehoods, innuendo, culture war issues and some hard truths.
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New Mexico’s attorney general has been accused of violating state ethics laws in negotiating a multibillion-dollar utility merger.
Truth or Consequences and Elephant Butte have codes forbidding the sale and use of “ground audible” and “aerial” fireworks within their jurisdictions that went largely unenforced on the 4th of July, when Sierra County Regional Dispatch was “inundated” with calls complaining about private fireworks displays.
Rebuilding a sense of community, dealing with water scarcity, derelict housing, trash and other quality of life issues were on the minds of the 25 residents who turned out for last week’s unofficial town hall.
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From her decision to open recruitment for every principal’s position in the Truth or Consequences Municipal Schools to implementing new curriculum strategies, Channell Segura has made prioritizing students’ needs the touchstone of her superintendency.
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The City of Truth or Consequences will abandon its idea of encouraging commercial development of the riverfront—if it listens to the 30 or so community members who attended the “open house” held by city staff and the Wilson & Company engineering firm on June 24.
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The Sierra County Commission has signed a contract with an out-of-state law firm to pursue a legal claim against the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and its plan to release a Mexican gray wolf family onto Sierra County’s Ladder Ranch.
The former police chief of Belen, NM, Rodriguez has a “clear record of enforcing consequences for officers who used excessive force,” said a spokesperson for Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham at the time Grisham appointed Rodriguez to the Civil Rights Commission formed in 2020 to address police reform. Rodriguez protested the commission’s majority report that recommended a new state law that would make it easier for New Mexicans to sue public employees for civil rights violations.
PHI Air Medical, a national air ambulance company, offers a countywide membership program for $8 per household annually that would protect Sierra Countians from having to pay tens of thousands in out-of-pocket expenses should they require being airlifted to a hospital in a medical emergency.
Denise Addie, a well-known community event organizer, withdrew her request to construct the memorial in a small downtown green space after being interviewed by the Sun.
The Truth or Consequences City Commission held a 3.25-hour meeting on June 23 at which several items of import, including the city’s water emergency, “dire” financial straits and a resolution confirming the three commission seats up for election in November, were discussed, reported and/or acted upon.
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The parties involved in a water fight that may determine if the New Mexico Copper Corporation can obtain sufficient water to process ore at the Copper Flat Mine in Sierra County are awaiting an Appellate Court ruling on a lower court’s decision, which could be handed down around the end of this month.
At a June 9 hearing of a land-dispute case that has been on the docket of the New Mexico’s Seventh Judicial District Court since 2014, the city argued that HSLD had not made a good-faith effort to achieve the terms of a final settlement ordered by federal court.
T or C’s motion to dismiss Hot Springs Land Development case is denied Read More »
News made at Wednesday’s Elephant Butte city council meeting: local housing starts are up, so is patronage at the municipal golf course, and raises for city councilors are in the works.
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The repair cost nearly $33,000, and the estimated price for replacing the aging transformer altogether could run as high as $1.5 million. The electric department’s other transformer is also a decade past its expected lifespan.
T or C electrical transformer fixed, still needs to be replaced Read More »