Search results

T or C’s water rate increase is over 5 percent

by Kathleen Sloan | October 1, 2021
4 min read

…increase in solid waste fees was approved by the city commission some years ago. WATER RATE COMPARABLES The average American family uses more than 300 gallons of water per day…


Ethos closing in on broadband construction start date

by Debora Nicoll | December 7, 2021
3 min read

…poles will physically support most of Ethos’s fiber-optic lines, informed the Sierra County Commission that SEC’s existing power poles were too short to meet governmental regulations. SEC asked the commission…


State and county betting on the job creation prowess of experimental SpinLaunch

by Kathleen Sloan | January 25, 2021
14 min read

…years experience founding companies in Fortune 500 consulting, IT, construction, and aerospace industries,” laid out these potential competitive advantages in a Jan. 29, 2020, Wired Magazine article. Wired’s examination of…


An appropriate wrap-up

by Max Yeh | December 3, 2021
7 min read

News comes and goes, so you may not remember the hundreds of articles the Sierra County Sun published this past year—on the county commission’s passing the annual budget in secrecy,…


Manager Madrid justifies city’s contemplated land swap with businessman Randy Ashbaugh as enabling development of racetrack and RV park

by Kathleen Sloan | December 4, 2020
4 min read

…the city commission’s Dec. 16 meeting. None of the city commissioners responded to a request for an explanation of why the city is contemplating the exchange. However, City Manager Morris Madrid offered…


Truth or Consequences’ city-owned electric utility has a 20-percent transmission loss

by Kathleen Sloan | May 2, 2020
3 min read

…is .1137 cents, according to Electricity Local’s website, electricitylocal.com, which has made a study of electric rates nationwide.  The Sierra County Sun compared electric rates in three similar-sized cities in…


Public comment second meeting of the month will have to wait some more

by Kathleen Sloan | May 13, 2020
3 min read

…campaigns for office.  “That’s why we’re bringing it up,” Forrister said.  City Commissioner Randall Aragon proposed they form an ad-hoc committee made up of more than the usual public commenters,…


Preview of Truth or Consequences City Commission May 13 meeting

by Kathleen Sloan | May 13, 2020
5 min read

…contemplating hiring the same firm.  PUBLIC COMMENT MAY COME BACK TO SECOND MEETING OF THE MONTH The three new City Commissioners, Brendan Tolley, Randall Aragon and Amanda Forrister, have vowed…


Neomi Martinez-Parra, running for state Senate District 35, doesn’t respond to questions

by Kathleen Sloan | July 17, 2020
4 min read

…of Common Core? It is gone and New Mexico is going to state testing. Common Core was a national test that made it possible to compare states’ performance, with New…


An Introduction to the Truth or Consequences City Commission Candidates

by Kathleen Sloan | January 9, 2020
11 min read

…in which you build a relationship between the community and the City Commission.” “Transparency, reaching out and touching the hearts of the people; every single decision needs to have community…


Scroll to Top