The Rio Grande Foundation has a very cool project going, NewMexicoVotes.org, that you ought to check out. Basically, they realized that there wasn’t any easy…
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My two boys and a group of homes school friends headed up to Santa Fe early this snowy late March morning (how’s that global warming…
0 CommentsThe only thing worse than raising taxes on income during times of a severe recession – bordering on depression – would be raising taxes on…
0 CommentsWow, I’m amazed. Unemployment in New Mexico continues to rise and and the nation’s unemployment numbers for February are the worse we’ve seen in 25…
0 CommentsAn interesting thing happened yesterday up at the legislature. HB346: Gross Receipts Surtax Bill received a do pass: As a reminder, this bill proposes the…
0 CommentsIt seems like nearly every election cycle a political candidate is caught lying to one of the state’s newspapers about criminal convictions in their past.…
0 CommentsYou cannot legislate ethical behavior. I know. I’m beginning to sound like a broken record on this subject. But, it’s true. You might recall that…
0 CommentsNew Mexico, like the rest of the country, is feeling the squeeze of the economic crisis. And, what priority have some legislators and the Governor…
0 CommentsBy now, you all know that I’m dead set against unnecessary ethics legislation that is pushed session after session. I prefer the convict-and-prosecute-the-criminals approach to…
0 CommentsIf you’re wondering what sort of business legislation is making its way through this session, YOU NEED to make the Association of Commerce and Industry…
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