{"id":1795,"date":"2007-05-31T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/in-wake-of-tragedy-anthony-considers-incorporation\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T20:25:00","slug":"in-wake-of-tragedy-anthony-considers-incorporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/in-wake-of-tragedy-anthony-considers-incorporation\/","title":{"rendered":"In wake of tragedy, Anthony considers incorporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The impoverished community of Anthony, fresh off two tragedies that have galvanized residents, is talking seriously about incorporation, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/news\/ci_6030062\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A month ago, a 13-year-old boy was killed in a car crash that was caused by a missing stop sign. More recently, a teen trying to clean up his life was murdered in a gang-related shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Many residents are bitter at the only government they can blame, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaanacounty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do\u00f1a Ana County<\/a>. In some ways, they\u2019re justified: In the late 1990s and early part of this decade, some commissioners worked for political and other reasons to encourage businesses that looked at Anthony to instead locate in Santa Teresa, where the county has worked for years to try to build a new city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the same time, situations only really improve when residents become involved. Voter turnout in Anthony has almost always been dismal. It\u2019s one of the poorest communities around, even as its alter ego on the other side of the state line, <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Anthony<\/st1:city>,  <st1:state st=\"on\">Texas<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, has improved the economic situation of its residents because it is incorporated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In 2000, the Census found that Anthony, N.M., had 7,904 residents, and 38 percent were living below the poverty level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There is some commercial and industrial development in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Anthony<\/st1:city><st1:state st=\"on\"><\/st1:state><\/st1:place> that could generate revenue. Incorporation would force residents to stand up and take responsibility for the community\u2019s poverty. It would also give them the means to organize and better attract growth and solve problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There is some groundwork for incorporation in place. The Anthony area has a public water and sanitation district and a non-profit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonynewmexico.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">economic development group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Incorporation may be the next logical step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impoverished community of Anthony, fresh off two tragedies that have galvanized residents, is talking seriously about incorporation, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting. A month ago, a 13-year-old boy was killed in a car crash that was caused by a missing stop sign. More recently, a teen trying to clean up his life was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}