Texas v. NM, going forward

Las Animas going dry.

The resolution to Texas’s suit against New Mexico for failure to deliver Elephant Butte water will depend on New Mexico curtailing its overuse. What we, as a whole, agree to do is laid out in non-technical language in a linked article.

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Meeting people in their communities will be the modus operandi of new flood control district board

Flash-flood warning Sept. 19, 2025 from National Weather Service, El Paso's Meteorologist Chris Nunley's Facebook page

Sharing and coordinating resources between the two flood control districts bodes well for Sierra Countians, especially since tax money won't sufficiently cover permanent-solutions projects. Economies in operations and grant writing will be necessary.

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Turtleback Mountain Golf & Resort has its way with Elephant Butte and Truth or Consequences in annexation action

Crummy, unreadable map provided, as required, in petition to annex by Integrated Environmental Services and Two Cities

Rinse and repeat. The people's best interests take a back seat to businesses' development plans, with city councils' compliance and repression of public engagement and withholding of public documents.

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Who knew? Elephant Butte’s wastewater treatment plant is in Truth or Consequences

Screen shot of the plant taken from Elephant Butte's 2018 NPDES permit

Low land that saved the cost of putting in more lift stations may be the reason the City of Elephant Butte built its wastewater treatment plant within T or C's boundaries. Or maybe Elephant Butte thought it was county land? Now Elephant Butte wants the plant within its city limits.

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No Kings: Court rules against T or C—City commission can’t make up public bid rules

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10254274  Effigy of King John on his monument in Worcester Cathedral. King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 by his barons, which established that even kings are subject to the law.

Ron Fenn, activist and thorn in the side of the T or C city commission, had to file a case in court to get it to uphold the law and get fair treatment. District court, appellate court and remanded back to district court, Fenn finally got justice, after great exertion.

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Sierra Vista Hospital increased revenue by 24 percent due to Governor’s work on Medicaid–and no one tells us?

Image of Sierra Vista Hospital, courtesy of its website

The hospital's Joint Powers Commission, made up of elected officials from T or C, Village of Williamsburg and Sierra County, are supposed to be reporting to their constituents on hospital doings at their respective meetings. Nope. What do they intend to do with this "new" money?

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From the other side, November 29, 2025: “Why false beliefs feel safer than the truth”

Clouds.

A few weeks ago, I directed readers to an article in the Australian online news source Pearls and Irritations. Here I link to another of their publications: John Frew’s article addressing an issue in Australia but completely applicable to public discourse in America.

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