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Friday, January 29, 2016

Another Fall

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The Land of enchantment used to be higher rated as a place for retired people to live.  This latest Kiplinger report has us at 3rd worse ...
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Pants on Fire

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Is the New Mexico State Police Chief a liar?  Chief Pete Kassetas lashed out at a critic of Mayor Berry's plan to rehire police officer...
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Susana's Legacy

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Of course all of this isn't Susana's fault.  She didn't cause the great recession.  But in the six years in office she hasn...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Rainy Day

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Many lawmakers in Santa Fe have always called the State Permanent fund, valued somewhere north of $13 billion, a 'rainy day fund....
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Heavenly Father

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Bundy and his gang in Oregon were apparently caught with their special Mormon underwear down as they traveled to a meeting near their milit...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Sounds of Silence--Updated

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So, we have incarcerated hundreds of children at Holloman, Air Force Base in Alamogordo.  These central American children, yes children, ha...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

MISC.

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Sprint put another finger in the eye of the region's economy by their late Friday afternoon announcement that 400 New Mexicans lost the...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Science

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Quigley's front page column in the Journal this morning laments the lost of luster in the pursuit of pure science.  It is a thoughtful ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Magnificent Obsession

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The Editor of the Albuquerque Journal is on a mission to destroy the Albuquerque Public Schools, the few remaining construction jobs in the...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Reality

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Here is the reality.  There is not much the Governor or Mayors can do to staunch the slide of oil and gas revenues into the state.  That in...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Sunshine

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Back in the sunshine after a cloudy five days in upstate New York with the grandkids.  The kids were great but gray skies are not good for ...
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Saturday, January 16, 2016

All Inside

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I don't know how they do without sunshine on the East Coast. All soccer practice for our grandsons are inside giant structures. But it i...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Misc.

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President Obama's speech last night really took those tea party congressional reps to the wood shed.  They probably didn't even ge...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

Cue Card

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Governor Susana Martinez recently showed the reason for her reluctance in holding open news conferences.  I am told she performed poorly ...
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Shortfall

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Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry, who admittedly  has a difficult job, has decided to throw his lot in with the peeeetza lady, also know as ...
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Friday, January 08, 2016

ODD

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Let's see, there is a shortage of life saving vaccines for babies in New Mexico.  Certainly  there can be no excuse what so ever from s...
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Thursday, January 07, 2016

Bundy Welfare

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This graphic says it all about the criminals in Oregon occupying the Wildlife Refuge.  I have never understood during my entire public land...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Silliness

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Many of our legislators, mostly GOP types, are once again taking up the banner of harsher DUI laws. It is silly.  The problem is the laws w...
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Sunday, January 03, 2016

Bundied

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The extreme right wing defenders of free stuff from the government for them, and them only, have banded and bundied together again to threa...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

White Wash Payola

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The City of Albuquerque is getting ready to start a process for renewing the franchise for Comcast's cable TV and Internet Services.  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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