Only in New Mexico

Santos Brazil today.  I was up early to watch us enter this beautiful port.  I will post pictures this evening.  I read the Journal online t...

Bobbi wrote the blog today. Paraty is a proposed UNESCO World Heritage site well known for its cobblestone streets.    The architecture i...

We were  up early for a tender ride from the Veendam to Ilha Grande, Brazil.  This is the third largest  Brazilian island and it has bee...

We had an easy flight into Rio after a late flight into Atlanta.  We took a bus tour while waiting to embark on the Veendam.  This is Ipanem...

The City of Albuquerque's budget is as bad as I predicted it would be and Mayor Berry's administration is the one that has to deal w...

I am finally around to packing for the South American Cruise.  This will be our second cruise on Holland America's Veendam.  It was refi...

I for one am happy to see University students protesting again.  It is about time they got off their collective butts.  They have finally fi...

Everyone in the media and the right wing says we have new taxes now that the Legislature passed about $230 million in levies.  But these can...

I am getting very frustrated with the Department of Interior's inertia on finding good state level directors for the Bureau of Land Mana...

You can bet that Governor Richardson will take that job as the movie industry's lobbyist in Washington in a heartbeat. Who wouldn't...

Well, I just have to say the proposed tax hikes by the legislature just are horrendous.  We need tax hikes but we don't need regressive ...

I went to clean out my deposit box today at Bank of America.  As I said before the rates on the little metal container had gone up 300% in t...

The City of Albuquerque has a big bill to pay off as a result of a US Supreme Court refusal to hear the City's appeal of lower court rul...

Okay, no one trusts the stock market any more so they take their cash to the bank.  Sometimes it goes into a worthless rate of return on a C...

The South Korean skater Kim-Yu Na was poetry in motion last night at the Olympics.  I think she is a metaphor for the rise of the Asian coun...

The poor New Mexico oil and gas industry.  They are so picked upon that they are spending millions on TV along with their national counterpa...

Senator Tom Udall really shined in an interview last night on MSNBC. He made an eloquent and clear headed argument for getting rid of the...

Governor Bill Richardson, my old boss, must truly be counting the days until he leaves the Governorship.  After his latest poll numbers show...

I finally found out what the total student loan debt load was in this country.  It is 527 billion dollars.  Less than the bailouts we gave t...

I think there are a lot of busy bankers out there today.  New regulations for credit cards have gone into effect.   Bankers are busy because...