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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Will We Survive?

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There is a intriguing article in the New York Times today about whether the world will survive. Read it here. The story says with technolog...

Dendahl Comment

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Last night someone left this comment as an Anonymous contributor on my blog. It is really a great piece of work and wanted to leave it on t...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Dendahl the Hypocrite

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John Dendahl's meltdown on the top of the fold headline in the Albuquerque Journal this Sunday was astonishing to me. Especially the s...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Insurmountable Work

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I always marvel at the amount of work our legislators set out for them selves. Several thousand bills will be introduced at this session. ...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Kimberly and More Cinemark

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This is Kimberly Gleason. She sat down at my table at Starbuck's today and said hello. I said hello back and she thanked me for helpi...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Domestic, bush & Cinemark Sucks

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I have been staying busy with domestic stuff the last few days. New granite counter tops in the kitchen took a day and a half of work along...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Richardson

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The worst kept secret of the week was that Bill Richardson might announce for President today. Well, of course he did and I visited his web...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

Mugshots

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The Albuquerque Journal started showing the mugshots of everyone convicted of drunk driving this morning. They started with 180 unflatterin...
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Friday, January 19, 2007

Misc.

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As I was grinding away on my elliptical trainer this morning and watching the history channel I had to chuckle. The documentary on the air ...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

Wanna Bet?

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So, what issue in the Legislature will get the most coverage by the news media this year? I am including so called TV News in this. I am ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Oil and Gas Industry Blather

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The President of the Independent Petroleum Association blathered on in an OPED piece today in the Albuquerque Journal about how the oil and...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Money to Spend

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The legislature is convening today with a record surplus in funds awaiting the lawmakers and the Governor's decisions on how or whether ...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Didn't Watch Him

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Bobbi and I went to a 7pm showing of the movie "Children of Men' last night. I am one of those people who finds it difficult to ev...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

South Park and bush

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A few of us had coffee this morning and one of them brought up the impending speech by bush on his Iraq Surge. He asked what we thought of ...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Mainstream

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There is an interesting story on the Journal's website about how Hispanic voters returned to the Democrats this year. It says 70% of th...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

News Papers and the Internet

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This whole blogging thing is getting serious. Especially in you are a traditional journalist working for a daily newspaper. This is an in...
Saturday, January 06, 2007

Paint Fumes

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The only thing the painters left was a few paint fumes and a much more diverse color scheme it the house. We might fine tune it a bit but w...
Friday, January 05, 2007

Generosity

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I don't know of any industry that receives more generosity during bad weather from the taxpayer than the cattle ranchers in America. ...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Water and Nuts

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I always have a tendency to over simplify things. An Associated Press story on the Albuquerque Journal website this morning reports the con...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Paint Sniffing

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It will be five days of paint sniffing around here. The painters arrived at 7:15 this morning. They start with the ceilings throughout t...
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Jim Baca
Jim Baca has a strong record of visionary service to New Mexico. He retired as the State of New Mexico's Natural Resource Trustee 1n 2010. He has served as Mayor of the City of Albuquerque, as well as two prior terms as New Mexico’s elected State Land Commissioner. He served as the Director of the National Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior in the first Clinton Administration. Jim Baca also has served on the Boards of numerous non profit organizations including The Wilderness Society, the Wyss Foundation, and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Baca has run a successful public affairs consulting practice when not serving in public office. He spends his retirement playing golf, attending board meetings, and generally doing what ever he wants to do.
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