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The New Mexico Lottery Scholarship is an educational strength that we must utilize to its full capability – by making it more accommodating and flexible – if we are to begin improving education within our state. Continue Reading
I first met Bruce when he was serving as governor, getting an appointment to speak to him about his support for the Equal Rights Amendment. I was ushered into his office and there he was, bigger than life, pushed back in his gubernatorial chair, cowboy hat pushed to the back on his head, and his well-worn cowboy boots on top of the beautiful marble desk in front of him. Continue Reading
In his opinion piece about mandatory combined reporting (“Corporate tax debate has been misleading,” Nov. 10, 2009) Dick Minzner complains that the public debate on this issue has been misleading. Then he sets out misleading arguments of his own. Continue Reading
Health-care reform, as Congress presents it to us, is incomprehensively complex and non-understandable. If you want to control things, that’s exactly the situation you would want to create. There are hundreds of lobbyists trying mostly to keep things really complicated for us – the folks who will pay for it – so they can keep it their way. Continue Reading
I hate to be on the side of gluttony and slothfulness, but I believe having government minders deciding what is best for each of us is wrong. We have the right of self-destiny even when making mistakes. We have the right to be fat, dumb and happy. Continue Reading
Good things have happened for New Mexico so far in 2009. We should be thankful for the good, and perhaps the bad can be put into proper perspective. Here are a few of those good things in which the Attorney General’s Office was involved. Continue Reading
A military Warning Order is defined as “a preliminary notice of an order or action which is to follow.” I strongly believe that independents are putting both parties on preliminary notice to stop spending without end or the action that is to follow is re-election defeat. Continue Reading
I have been surprised at the minimal attention given to the recent indictment of the heads of CDR Financial Products — David Rubin, Zevi Wolmark and Evan Zarefsky. Here’s a look at what’s contained in the indictments. Continue Reading
This Thanksgiving, I hope our legislators in Santa Fe and Washington remember the Golden Rule. After all, being grateful means understanding that we’re all a bit lucky, and being gracious enough to extend the opportunities we’ve been afforded to everyone else. Continue Reading
Letting the engine of prosperity work may be all that is standing between having to slash state jobs and raise taxes. The New Mexico leaders can get out their sharp knives and hack each other up about budget cuts and taxes, or they can strive to get new dollars instead. Continue Reading
Amid the latest revelations about political cronies taking the taxpayer for a very expensive ride, I want to remind New Mexicans that they really don’t need to settle for an ‘everybody does it’ state, or state of mind. Continue Reading
Government agencies shouldn’t be allowed to get away with ignoring a state law requiring them to submit annual audits, but nearly three dozen are doing just that. How do we know those agencies aren’t rife with corruption? We don’t. Continue Reading
It’s ironic that I had to write an article this week about discovering improper spending on news releases sent to the media by the governor and lieutenant governor in 2004. Why didn’t I and others recognize the problem five years ago? Continue Reading
To get a pool of conceal-carry protectors quietly hidden among the defenseless in crowds, there must be adequate protection of those who protect us. A society that thinly veils its threats against people taking up arms for protection will not have those citizens protecting them. Continue Reading
The story of D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad’s ex-wife Mildred Muhammad – a woman the system completely failed — shows the importance of community and self-reliance. Continue Reading