Can’t Someone Stop the Train to Nowhere?

By now it has become obvious that the planned “communter” train between Belen and Bernalillo makes no economic sense. Yet the legislature continues to debate this monstrocity. Can’t anyone step up and introduce a bill to put the train out of its misery?
It’s bad in so many ways:
–The cost will greatly exceed revenues.
–Ridership [...]

Going Ape in NM

Thanks to Dick Rowland’s staff at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, here is a nice behavioral analogy apropos to NM (perhaps you have seen it before):
The difference between a bureaucrat and a public servant is the degree to which an individual is empowered to take action for positive change in a system and the extent [...]

Groucho the Great

As hints for the forthcoming legislative session are beginning to appear I am reminded of Groucho the great philosoper:
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
- Groucho Marx -

Politics in New Mexico

This week’s “The Line” on KNME Channel 5 in Albuquerque (8:30 pm Friday, 7:00 am Christmas Day) features our good friend John Dendahl. Tune in and you will see an informing and entertaining discussion of
* boondoggling in state government
* groping in state government
* pay-to-play in state government
* and more.
Merry Christmas and [...]

Fantastic

Music to my ears; and it gets even better.

Damned by faint praise

I just saw Mario at lunch and he was a little chagrined that I characterized his blog as “usually-reasonable.” For the record, I am a big fan of his blog and have to date not found an unreasonable post. Perhaps I am subconsciously jealous that his blog is more widely-read than our own?
On [...]

Welcome

New Mexico has a small but growing community of bloggers. Here, in no particular order, are some of my personal favorites:
Mario Burgos: His is a usually-reasonable right-of-center perspective from an active Republican.
New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan: Another right-of-center perspective from an even more active Republican.
Duke City Fix: A mostly-apolitical mélange from [...]

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