Tax Credits Needed to Improve New Mexico Schools

With the Albuquerque Journal focusing like a laser on New Mexico’s poor education results recently (and justifiably show), I questioned Richardson’s credentials as an “education governor.” Thankfully, we at the Rio Grande Foundation are not the only advocates of real education solutions. Our friends at Educate New Mexico are just one of several groups that [...]

Is the Rail Runner a Success?

We at the Rio Grande Foundation have long been critical of the Rail Runner. But Governor Richardson calls it a “success” and politicians around the state want the train extended to their communities. The ultimate plan seems to be to run it south to El Paso and north to Denver.
Unfortunately, as Jim Scarantino points out [...]

The Education Governor?

Governor Bill Richardson is all over the morning paper talking about his education reform ideas. He claims his “bold plan” will result in 10,000 more high school grads. I love it when politicians claim they can sway the actions of multitudes of individuals with the wave of a hand or a simple policy change. Of [...]

As quoted in Health Care News…

The folks at Health Care News are covering the debate over Obama’s health care proposal and state health care issues like no one else. I have been pleased to provide my perspective on various stories that have been published in the paper and online. I have several quotes sprinkled throughout the August edition.
First [...]

Where’s the New Vision for ABQ?

In case you are not already aware given the debates rampaging in Washington, we are having a mayoral election in Albuquerque this October. There are three candidates, two of whom, Richard Romero and RJ Berry, have been on “Speaking Freely” (I like both of them personally a great deal). Listen to Richard’s show here and [...]

Stimulus plan too big, too late to help

As a state and local think tank, we opposed the federal stimulus bill, but did not articulate many of the specific reasons for our opposition — aside from the fact that temporary economic stimuli have never worked. That said, two of our economists on staff, Ken Brown and Micha Gisser recently tackled the stimulus on [...]

Independent analysis shows ugly impacts of ObamaCare on New Mexicans

The Lewin Group, a highly respected health care policy and management consulting firm, has examined the impact of the American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200).
In New Mexico, the impact of the health care bill on private coverage, the uninsured, physicians and hospitals, as found by the Lewin Group, is as follows:
- 45 [...]

This week’s episode of Speaking Freely: Democrats Refuse to Discuss Health Care

I couldn’t make this week’s episode of Speaking Freely. I was actually heading to a meeting in Santa Fe (I took the RailRunner and that is a different story). Anyway, earlier in the week Jim asked the Democratic Party which is located next door to the KIVA Studios and they told him they would send [...]

More on the “Public Option” (Response to Jim Tryon)

Recently, one of Governor Richardson’s lead advisors on health care issues argued on the pages of the Albuquerque Journal that the so-called “public option” is the best fix for our health care system.
A national public option is perhaps the most important step in the reform process. What can a public option do to fix the [...]

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”

The quote above is from Mahatma Gandhi and it described how his movement eventually achieved victory. Apparently, although we skipped the ridicule part, from reading the pages of the Albuquerque Journal, we at the Rio Grande Foundation must be getting close to victory. After all, our opponents are fighting us and our ideas harder than [...]

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