News from Magdalena

New Mexico blogger Steve Bodio details what happens when the village well runs dry — or collapses, actually.  Water is being trucked in — how long can that last?

At the macro level, I wonder if there is a connection with this headline.

Nevertheless, the Magdalena blogging gang alerted me to the threatened secession of a number of northeastern counties from the state of Colorado. 

We are a band of brothers and native to the soil,

Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil;

 

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For [northeastern Colorado] rights, hurrah!