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Federal Health Care Reform is “Snake Oil” Says Accomplished Pediatric Cardiologist, Health Care Expert
(Albuquerque) Deane Waldman, MD, MBA, a practicing pediatric cardiologist, adjunct fellow with the Rio Grande Foundation, and author of a book and dozens of articles on health care and health care reform, offers a stinging indictment of the so-called “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” also known as ObamaCare, in a new issue brief released [...]
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To vote on Paseo or not to vote on Paseo, that is the question…
The latest dust-up around Albuquerque is over whether the City Council should be able to approve financing for the Paseo del Norte project or whether the issue should be held off and put before the voters in November. Mayor Berry says that Council needs to act now so costs don’t go up and the [...]
RGF: Driving liberals nuts!
Our true mission here at the Rio Grande Foundation is the pursuit of economic freedom. A secondary, but equally-enjoyable mission is to drive left-wing liberals crazy. Check out this screed by ardent leftist (he told me once that FDR was “too conservative” for opposing public sector collective bargaining) Arthur Alpert.
Another leftist attacked me [...]
Join the Albuquerque Tea Party and RGF in rallying against ObamaCare!
The Albuquerque Tea Party is hosting a rally this Friday against the health care law known as “ObamaCare.” In case you haven’t heard, the US Supreme Court will be holding hearings on the issue starting early next week.
Because health care freedom is so integral to Americans’ personal and financial freedoms, RGF president Paul Gessing [...]
Author of economic freedom report coming to Las Cruces!
The Rio Grande Foundation’s raison d’etre is the study and promotion of economic freedom. The author of what we consider to be the definitive report on the topic is coming to New Mexico for a presentation in Las Cruces on March 28.
For more information on the event, check this out and share with your [...]
Hispanic critics blast Skandera (but how about their own legislators?)
I read this article (just catching up with my Journal reading) with amusement and frustration. Some so-called “Hispanic leaders” are upset at Education Secretary Hanna Skandera over the achievement gap between Hispanics and whites and for other perceived slights.
I don’t know about the personal interaction Skandera has had with these people, but I can [...]
Dodd-Frank could kill small business loans
The Rio Grande Foundation focuses primarily on state and local issues with the exception of those big issues at the federal level that could have dramatic, negative impacts on New Mexicans. One under-reported provision of the Dodd-Frank financial services reforms will negatively impact small business loans. It was brought to my attention by a local, [...]
Salary release earns press in Four Corners (and a proclamation from Bernalillo County)
The Rio Grande Foundation recently released payroll data for several New Mexico school districts here. Our transparency efforts have made waves previously in the Farmington area due to efforts by the Mayor and certain members of the City Council to increase transparency. Our recent efforts were no different.
Read an opinion piece I wrote in the [...]
New York: following the New Mexico “model” for pension non-reform?
Check this story out about the New York Assembly’s recent decision not to enact needed pension reforms proposed by liberal Gov. Cuomo.
According to the article:
The Assembly refused Cuomo’s suggestion to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65 even though the governor stressed that his plan would save hundreds of billions of dollars [...]
Are the folks at NM’s BBER “Bad Economists?”
One of my favorite economics quotes is from the Frenchman Frederic Basiat who says, “There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be [...]
