Reforming the State Investment Council

If you haven’t already seen today’s Albuquerque Journal, check out my column on the State Investment Council. While we have certainly critiqued the SIC’s investment practices in the past, this column focuses on reforms moving forward and how New Mexicans would best benefit from these massive pools of money.
Reform ideas range from simply removing the [...]

Supercomputer Crushes Criticisms???

Yesterday, Tom Bowles, Chairman of the N.M. Computer Applications Center Board had an opinion piece in the Albuquerque Journal. In his piece, he criticized the Legislative Finance Committees recent studies of the Supercomputer. The LFC study can be found here.
The problem with Bowles’s article is that he never really addresses the core issues with this [...]

New Mexico’s Silly Supercomputer

Back in early March, the Albuquerque Journal published a glowing editorial about New Mexico’s supercomputer. I responded to this with a blog posting saying, in essence, that the jobs produced by the computer were minimal and that taxpayers are still getting ripped off.
How quickly times change! On Sunday, the Journal changed its tune completely with [...]

Discussion on Liberty in New Mexico with Jason Talley of Motorhome Diaries

If you’ve been reading this blog over the last week, you are probably aware that the guys from “Motorhome Diaries” were in town over the weekend. I sat down and discussed the Rio Grande Foundation’s successes and the overall state of liberty in New Mexico. Check out the interview below:

Check me out on Examiner.com…become an Examiner too.

No, this is not a sales pitch for anything — except my writing I suppose. The Examiner is a website that aggregates locally-focused content and allows users to choose the content that interests them. There are “left-liberal”, “libertarian,” and “immigration” Examiners so that you can look for the content on local topics of interest that [...]

Richardson Fires Investment Advisor

With New Mexico’s State Investment Council (SIC) mired in scandal and under attack from the Rio Grande Foundation, the media, and others concerned about rampant mis-steps and improprieties, Governor Bill Richardson has taken a first step by firing a private equity adviser under scrutiny in a kickback probe of New York state’s pension fund. This [...]

Discussing the Tea Party w/ Peter St. Cyr

Along with gubernatorial candidate Greg Zanetti and others, Peter St. Cyr interviewed me about the Tea Party movement and what it means, particularly moving forward. Check out Peter’s thoughts and interviews w/ Zanetti and I here.

Tea Parties: A Smashing Success

If you didn’t make it out to one of the tea parties around New Mexico, you missed out on an incredible experience. First and foremost, regardless of media reports, turnout in Albuquerque — where Jim Scarantino and I broadcast for four hours on AM 1550 — was between 5,000 and 10,000. In fact, according to [...]

Latest List of Tea Parties!

See you today in Albuquerque. I look forward to continuing to work on issues of limited government and personal responsibility with tea party activists statewide.
ALBUQUERQUE
April 15, 2009
4-7 p.m.
Independence Grill (Montgomery one block west of Louisiana)
Please bring a can of pork and beans, a box of red or green tea, and a home-made sign.
www.albuquerqueteaparty.com
ALAMOGORDO
April 15, 2009
11:00- [...]

Paul Gessing and Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones Discuss Legislative Successes/Failures of 2009 Session

The 2009 legislative session is in the books and — particularly compared to recent sessions — this one was relatively successful for both doing good (improved transparency and reforming government pensions) and not doing bad (like raising taxes). I discussed the accomplishments and shortcomings of the session w/ Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones and hosts Nicole Brady [...]

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