Dear Editor, Recent weather extremes in the south and east are examples of what global warming can cause--a warmer arctic that disrupts the polar vortex and pushes cold weather and snow farther south. It also changes moisture flows around the Earth, causing more rain, flooding, and stronger storms in some areas and more heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires in other regions.
Our use of coal, oil, and natural gas, which causes global warming, must be reduced quickly. One approach is to reform outdated and cumbersome permitting processes so clean energy projects, such as for solar and wind poweralong with more transmission lines--can be added to our grid more quickly.
Also, permitting reform can put battery storage systems online sooner to hold excess electricity from solar and wind power plants during peak generation periods and release it when needed.
Currently there are bipartisan efforts in Congress for reform. Email your senators and representative, or call them at 202-224-3121, to support sensible permitting reform for clean and cheap renewable energy.
Sincerely, Gary Jump
Mis-Management
Dear editor, Cibola County built and still owns the Core Civic Detection Center in Milan. Cibola County has been housing arrested persons from the City of Grants, Village of Milan, Cibola Sheriff's Office, and other Law Enforcement agencies along with illegal immigrants. It has over 180 jobs many of which are Native Americans who live in the area and brings in Millions of dollars to the local community in taxes and other income.
Cibola County built another jail facility east of town but let it go because of lawsuits and being built in the wrong place over the top of a water shed that is causing the building to crack and sink. Money for the land went to an owner with past political connections. Both the first new warden and his wife hired to run the new jail on McBride Road went to federal prison for abusing an inmate putting him in the local hospital. They were hired by the county. He was already under investigation for the same thing in the jail he supervised and had left from. A former Cibola County Manager and County Commissioner were charged with crimes to include a $90k check for the new county building taxpayers are still paying for with bonds. Maybe all these problems are not just bad economy but mis-management by the people we keep electing at both the local and state levels I think they call themselves DEMOCRATS.
Signed, Mr. Harry L. Hall, USAF Veteran Retired Police Sheriff Lt. 38+ years