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To understand why Mayor Nate Duckett wants Farmington, N.M., to reopen while the governor wants it shut, it helps to know something about what he calls his city’s “death spiral.” Perched in a rural corner of northwest New Mexico, Farmington watched its wealth vanish as its oil and gas industries went elsewhere. Its population is one of the fastest-shrinking in America. What keeps the lights on in Farmington is a coal-fired power plant whose fate remains uncertain. And all of that was before the virus leveled what remained of Farmington’s economy.

So in April, Mr. Duckett went to his office in City Hall to write new orders for his town. They amounted to no less than an existential plea, warning of crime, hunger, violence and homelessness if the lockdown continued. Though his role is nonpartisan, he said he votes Republican — and in that moment in April he laid responsibility for what came next with New Mexico’s Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham. “An economic disaster has been created,” Mr. Duckett, 42, said in a broadcast. Past proclamations by Farmington mayors had regulated fireworks and denoted an American Legion Day. The April proclamation declared an economic emergency and asked for a partial reopening of all shuttered businesses.

1 posted on 05/17/2020 8:56:08 AM PDT by brownwill6767
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To: brownwill6767

And the scumedia, rat politicians and their zombie army applaud with delight


2 posted on 05/17/2020 8:57:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: brownwill6767

Be interesting to know if Mayor Duckett and his fellow government “workers” in Farmington are continuing to collect paychecks during the lockdown that is causing this death spiral.


3 posted on 05/17/2020 8:58:36 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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“For a City Already in a ‘Death Spiral,’ What’s After Lockdown?”

How about THE GREAT TRIBUATION. Be ready everyone. . .not time setting but the reality is no one is guaranteed a next breath. http://www.patburt.com/


5 posted on 05/17/2020 9:01:10 AM PDT by Maudeen (OUR ONLY HOPE IS JESUS)
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Glenn Beck has observed that this may be the death knell for New York city,because many businesses may have found teleworking too attractive to want to go back and pay exhorbitant rents.


6 posted on 05/17/2020 9:01:30 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: brownwill6767
For a City Already in a ‘Death Spiral,’ What’s After Lockdown?

I saw the headline, and thought it was about New York City.

Of course not. The New York Times is still at the stage of "denial".

8 posted on 05/17/2020 9:06:03 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("The natives are growing restless")
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for all those that don’ get the biochip implanted it will be

Judas Cradle.
Rat Torture.
Iron Maiden.
The Rack.
Pear of Anguish.
Chair of Torture / Iron Chair.
Barrel Pillory.
Crushing.
Hanging.
Heretic’s fork.


10 posted on 05/17/2020 9:10:47 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: brownwill6767

The Democrat Governors and Mayors are following the Venezuela model. The want to drive out the middle class and entrepreneurs leaving only the wealthy, the privileged, the working poor, and the very poor. That will permanently cement their lock on power.


12 posted on 05/17/2020 9:20:14 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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So the NY Slimes has to go all the way to NM for a story? I guess they don’t want to cover the one in their own s**thole city and s**thole state.


18 posted on 05/17/2020 9:59:36 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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Abandonment, Ghost Town, Burial. Stuff like that.


22 posted on 05/17/2020 10:12:56 AM PDT by Cboldt
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People that are dissatisfied right now are the productive people, they should all move out and let the place burn down behind them. They should move some place where they can be pursue happiness which is their right.


24 posted on 05/17/2020 10:21:53 AM PDT by dila813
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Was visiting Durango awhile back and decided to see Farmington.
Place was like a high desert town not worth seeing.
Went to a store that sold gas, guns, produce and booze.
What else could anyone need?


28 posted on 05/18/2020 5:10:16 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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I used to live in Farmington. It was always a booming economy when I was there. After I left, I went back in 1985 and saw caravans of cars leaving the area. I know it was then in a “Bust” cycle. It looked good in 2013 and 2015.


31 posted on 05/19/2020 12:51:24 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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