Swingle brings transparency and reality to T or C’s budgeting process: Part 3
…course’s budget for communications, insurance and a copy machine, Luna remarked: “We should have one phone company, one credit card company, one insurance company, not everyone doing their own thing.”…
New Mexico: Land of Entrapment
…four weeks that the trapping season has been open in New Mexico this year, three dogs have been ensnared. And those are only the incidents we at Trapfree New Mexico…
Fact checking Dow’s announcement that she is seeking governor’s office in 2022
…email that also solicited campaign funds. The Sun did a fact check on each of Dow’s assertions in the July 7 announcement, which is downloadable below. The Sun found…
UPDATE: Broadband company working to win BLM construction permit for fiber optics network in southern Sierra County
…(To find out if your property is potentially included in these arrangements, go to https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/rdof-phase-i-dec-2020/ and type your physical address in the search box. If your property pops up in…
PUAB Chair Szigeti says T or C’s restrictions on private solar systems are “not legal”
…the ordinance, but the Truth or Consequences Code of Ordinances, available online, states that this number is still “reserved.” A downloadable copy of Ordinance 664 is attached here. Ordinance 664Download…
School board expects school staff to work while students are out due to coronavirus
…administrator in attendance. Piper and Pearlman also recommended those with computers go to Khan Academy, which offers free online math lessons covering elementary grade levels through Algebra 1. Some teachers…
Analysis: T or C’s voting system for city commissioners preserves status quo leadership
…since there are no term limits placed on city commission service. Wikipedia calls this “cloning” candidates. Here’s how commission elections currently play out. Imagine the first open position has one…
The Best Local News Sustainability Bill
…as a “print or digital publication” that also meets these tests: “The primary content of such publication is original content derived from primary sources and relating to news and current…
Third day on the job, Swingle brings transparency and reality to T or C’s budgeting process
…cuts and devising a plan within two years to end the practice of balancing the budget with transfers from utility fees. The city commission’s budget deliberations began at an all-day…
Update: T or C city commission manager’s search has transparency problems
…an action that should have been taken in an open session, as required by the state’s Open Meetings Act. City Commissioner Randall Aragon confirmed yesterday that the city commission narrowed…