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We need someone like former N.M. Gov. Gary Johnson to be president. But America keeps kicking the can down the road and will do it again in 2012 – which means he has no chance of winning. It also means we’re headed for a train wreck. Continue Reading
To instruct and teach the young has been a part of the human social contract since long before our ancestors swung down from their trees on the African savanna. And isn’t it just amazing that we are, in 2011, arguing about what education is and how best to go about it? Continue Reading
Gov. Susana Martinez was quite unforgiving in her attacks on then-Lt. Gov. Diane Denish last year for violating state aircraft regulations. Now the Martinez administration has violated the very same rules. Continue Reading
Restoring a truly “federal” government as the founders of our nation intended would resolve many of today’s thorniest problems. Continue Reading
New Mexico has one of the best energy conservation codes in the country, but it’s under attack for the fourth time since it was passed a year ago. Continue Reading
My firsthand experience is that Governor Bill Richardson took the job of appointing judges seriously and deliberated carefully about the merits of every candidate he considered. Continue Reading
New amendments to the Governmental Conduct Act ensure that all public servants statewide now have a common code of conduct instead of a patchwork of ethics laws. Continue Reading
A recent trip to Washington to attend transparency camp made me realize I’m lucky to live in New Mexico, where we have open records and open meetings laws and people who fight to enforce them. But it also reminded me that there’s more to be done, and renewed my passion for open government. Continue Reading
Our nation’s founders worried that government without strong limitations could become as oppressive as King George III who inspired the American Revolution. Government today is arguably as oppressive as it was under King George. Continue Reading
Is Obama’s boy Jon Huntsman running for the Republican nomination for president? Yes. Does it matter? No. Continue Reading
Our entire community has been strengthened by Bishop Ricardo Ramirez’s presence, and I can only hope that others will work to emulate his actions, message and disposition. Continue Reading
On April 25, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar issued a report to Congress with some very disturbing news: Due to the effects of climate change, eight major river basins in the United States, including New Mexico’s Rio Grande, could suffer up to a 14 percent reduction in flows over the next four decades. Continue Reading
The City of Santa Fe’s No. 1 priority in this year’s legislative session went to a silent and unceremonious death. Continue Reading
It did not take me long to find myself in trouble. Thirty minutes into my first day in kindergarten the powers-that-be lost patience with me acting like a boy. So I was put in “time out.” Continue Reading
While New Mexico does indeed seem to be enjoying a mostly downward trend in alcohol-impaired fatalities over the last several years, that trend is not the result of any discernable effect of the interlock law. Continue Reading