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Helena Chemical Company’s flippant attitude regarding state regulation and the concerns of neighbors has earned it a bad reputation, the state’s environmental protection division director argues in this commentary. He writes that the Environment Department’s regulation of Helena is not unfair. Continue Reading
UPDATED: Members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee gave unanimous approval today to a bill that would designate hundreds of thousands of acres in Doña Ana County as wilderness. Continue Reading
Today in Mesquite, the Environmental Improvement Board will host a public hearing on Helena Chemical Company’s application to operate its facility without an air quality permit. Here is a Helena vice president’s explanation of why his company’s Mesquite operation doesn’t need a permit. Continue Reading
A public hearing will be held Wednesday in Mesquite on whether Helena Chemical Company should be required to have an air quality permit. NMPolitics.net blogger Nick Voges shares why he believes Helena must be regulated on his blog Zeitgeist. Continue Reading
Despite a long history of environmental violations, Helena Chemical is holding public hearings to explain why they should regulate themselves. Continue Reading
A committee chaired by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is set to consider a Bingaman-sponsored bill that would designate hundreds of thousands of acres in Doña Ana County as wilderness. Continue Reading
Doña Ana County has a new elections supervisor. He’s Trey LeFluer, a former field organizer for the state Democratic Party who earlier this year managed the successful campaign of new Mesilla Mayor Nora Barraza. Continue Reading
Even though he isn’t mentioned or speaking in radio ads promoting the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff Todd Garrison is suspending the ads until after the November election. Continue Reading
The Hispano Chamber of Commerce de Las Cruces is currently spending a great deal of money on TV ads and printed material promoting a bill that would designate hundreds of thousands of acres as wilderness in Dona Ana County – but it isn’t saying who provided the cash for the media blitz. Continue Reading
This is in response to Mr. Nick Voges’ assertion that Senator Bingaman’s wilderness bill “would make our borders safer.” If wilderness study areas are designated as wilderness, the Border Patrol will no longer be able to conduct routine patrols and will be prohibited from utilizing mechanical equipment or other modern detection devices. How does that make us safer? Continue Reading
It’s anyone’s right to disagree with wilderness designations as a concept, but to stubbornly misrepresent the facts and distort the public dialogue through scare tactics is inappropriate. Continue Reading
We the people have spoken. We want a balanced budget without cuts to services or tax increases. It’s clear that the public doesn’t know what it wants and knows even less how to get there. That’s where our leaders come in. We need them to lead. Continue Reading
A Las Cruces prosecutor at the center of controversy for forwarding an e-mail joke about killing a Mexican and an Arab has been removed from her position as campaign treasurer for a judicial candidate. Continue Reading
A terrible fraud is being perpetuated on the citizens of Doña Ana County. This week we are hearing that the 911 dispatch center is critical to saving lives and it needs to be modernized, so citizens are just going to have to increase taxes or there will be dire consequences. But why can’t we cut less-critical services instead? Continue Reading
Following recent testimony from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, NMPolitics.net blogger Nick Voges writes that we must radically optimize government and will likely need to raise taxes and cut or modify services to stay solvent. But can we handle that truth? Continue Reading