Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
Listen to weekly one-minute updates from RGF
For quite some time now, I have been doing minute-long updates for KIVA 1550. If you listen to that station for any length of time, you have probably heard at least a few of them.
If, however, you just want to listen to several recent updates, you can find them online here.
Leader of New Mexico economic development department embraces fiscal responsibility
Jon Barela, Gov. Martinez’s Secretary of Economic Development, doesn’t use the state’s car fleet and has actually sold off large number of state vehicles. Channel 4 took a look at the story and found that Barela’s efforts are fiscally-responsible and saving taxpayers money. They asked me for comment as well, so check out the video [...]
Profoundly silly article article on the end of oil
The end of oil is coming! Like Paul Revere, two columnists take on “the end of oil” in today’s Albuquerque Journal and come off sounding like a couple of ignoramuses. As an article from a few years back points out, “the world’s reserves of oil and natural gas continued their long term trend of growing [...]
Providing the basics is not “stale”
Former Albuquerque City Councilor Pete Dinelli takes current Mayor RJ Berry (and to an extent the Journal) to task for the supposed lack of ambition inherent in the Mayor’s efforts to allow Albuquerque residents to choose from an array of potential projects designed to make the City a better place to live.
Among the [...]
Use free market to save endangered species
Yesterday I wrote about the sand dunes lizard and the potential negative impact its listing on the endangered species list could have for New Mexico. Interestingly enough, a recent study from the island nation of Palau finds that the economic impact of an individual shark to that island’s economy is $1.9 million.
I’ve written before [...]
Submit comments on the dunes sagebrush lizard
New Mexico’s economy is under attack from the extreme environmentalists once again. This time, the issue is the dunes sagebrush lizard in southeastern New Mexico. Read more details on the debate over at Capitol Report New Mexico. There are also serious doubts about the negative impact, if any, that oil and grass drilling may have [...]
Atlas Shrugged now showing in Las Cruces!
Ayn Rand’s epic Atlas Shrugged has made its way to Allen Theatres in Las Cruces. Showtimes here. If you support free markets and limited government, you need to see this movie. First and foremost, it is only part 1 and we need to show the producers that parts 2 and 3 are worth making, but [...]
Selling off unnecessary federal buildings a winner
Yesterday, I appeared on Channel 13 to discuss a new plan from the Obama Administration to sell off unused and vacant federal buildings.
345 excessive federal buildings in NM: krqe.com
The full federal report can be found online here. At the end, the reporter mentions my push for federal lands to have a similar process done. [...]
If supermarkets were like public schools
I’ve been saying for some time that, in terms of how policies have impacted the marketplace, a useful comparison can be made between public schools and supermarkets. Thankfully, great minds seem to think alike because Nobel Prize winning economist Don Boudreaux makes the same point in a highly-eloquent manner in the Wall Street Journal.
To [...]
High School Students: Free summer seminar on US Constitution
The Rio Grande Foundation, New Mexico’s free market think tank, is pleased to alert New Mexico high school students to the following opportunity:
The Bill of Rights Institute is pleased to offer 1 FULL scholarships (a $3,000 value) for a New Mexico student to attend the Constitutional Academy this summer. This premier program for high [...]
