On the maiden voyage of the new Tipping Point New Mexico podcast, Dowd Muska and I discuss the results of New Mexico’s primary elections and where they leave us as we head toward November. The audio file is embedded below. Check it out and let us know what you think:
Our friends (and attorneys) at the Goldwater Institute (Arizona’s free market think tank) have provided an update on the Rio Grande Foundation lawsuit against the City of Santa Fe. As you’ll recall, the City is attempting to stifle free speech, in this case on the soda tax issue. While the news cycle has moved on […]
The Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) system is an unmitigated disaster. The most recent evidence to that effect comes from the City of Albuquerque’s Inspector General (you can read the IG’s full report here). It is almost too depressing to recount, but a few items have been widely reported: * The Berry Administration put pressure on […]
New Mexico’s elected leaders and many citizens often claim to be interested in “diversifying the economy” and attracting good-paying new jobs to our state. When push comes to shove, however, schizophrenia reigns. Policymakers often outdo themselves throwing subsidies and tax exemptions at businesses while they enact policies or restrictions that make doing business in New […]
Albuquerque Event Notice Donald Boudreaux, One of America’s Leading Free Market Economists: The Case for Free Trade Click here for registration form. Free trade has emerged as one of the most controversial issues in the Trump Administration and American economic policy these days, but Trump is by no means the first American President to levy […]
The 2018 New Mexico primaries are in the books and one thing is clear: the “progressives” are in firm control of New Mexico’s Democratic Party. The distinction is one of more style and social issues than substance on economic issues. New Mexico is dominated by “big government” politicos on both sides of the aisle, but […]
If you have attempted to use any of the City of Albuquerque’s 22 community centers during the past 2 weeks, you may have seen the following sign. That’s right, the first thing the City of Albuquerque does when kids get out of school at Albuquerque Public Schools is…to shut the City’s community centers down for […]
A year ago, the Rio Grande Foundation had an article published around the state outlining some of the amazing public policy successes happening in neighboring Arizona. At the time we said that New Mexico policymakers could learn a lot from their peers in Arizona. That situation hasn’t changed much in the past year. In fact, […]
The following appeared at NMPolitics.net on May 29, 2018. COMMENTARY: New Mexico policymakers and citizens received some good economic news recently. Thanks to the much-maligned process known as fracking, oil production in the Permian Basin in Southeast New Mexico is booming. New Mexico recently became the third-biggest oil producing state in the nation and is now […]
As head of the Rio Grande Foundation I often travel both within and outside of New Mexico. I recently traveled to Alaska for a meeting with Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform and other leaders from across the nation. It was my first trip to the Final Frontier and (fortunately) it wasn’t ALL work. […]
