The City corrects sewer loan with do-over resolution
Last month the Truth or Consequences City Commission passed a resolution taking out a 20-year loan for $473,000 of which $100,000 is a grant from the New Mexico Environment Department…
Preview: Sierra County Commission’s Dec. 17 meeting
…resolution states, when regular 100-degree weather will stress the pronghorn and hunters. A resolution seeks to limit Holloman Air Force Base’s plans to extend F16 flight training to Talon Air…
Local lobbyist wanted, but didn’t get, support for Spaceport Welcome Center
…the Sierra County Sun, Dec. 16. He asked the governments amend their “Infrastructure Capital Improvements Plan” to include a Spaceport America Welcome Center. Since ICIPs are passed by resolution they…
Electric-rate calculation a mystery to TorC officials
…City Commission Changes how ‘energy cost adjustment’ is calculated”. It’s not complicated. Twice a year, in May and October, the City will take its average wholesale rate. Its wholesalers are…
UPDATE: Adjudication of Copper Flat Mine’s water rights scheduled to begin again
…economic interests was now officially joined. The Sierra County Commission and the Truth or Consequences City Commission had passed resolutions of support for the mine in 2012 because it promised…
T or C water/wastewater director responds to well field concerns in a rare public report to the city commission
…towns in this instance, it’s impossible to get any realistic comparison regardless of size.” After insisting the Sun shouldn’t compare T or C with Tucumcari, Cole then compared two towns…
Wins and Losses
…bat 100 percent. By all rights, we should be quite pleased with the passage of 10 and maybe eleven of the bills Retake Our Democracy and our allies pushed for,…
Smoking lessons in the time of COVID
…When an infected person speaks normally or even just breathes regularly, viruses come out into the air mixed with liquid as droplets. These droplets are heavier than air and slowly…
Elephant Butte news roundup
…first six months of this year Moore has issued 68 permits, which include new homes and commercial buildings. as well as home and commercial improvements. Among them are 10 new-home…
New Mexico Copper Corporation, Turner Ranch Properties and Hillsboro citizen group await imminent Appellate Court decision
…said at the oral arguments depended on one, an enormous amount of factual information (almost 10,000 pages of information) and two, pretty subtle and complex legal reasoning coming out of…