In an earlier post, we declared that Beverlee McClure, President of the Association of Commerce and Industry (ACI), was the day’s “Worst Person in the World” for making outrageously false statements about the Better Choices New Mexico coalition in a speech to the Economic Forum. Well, on today’s Albuquerque Journal OpEd page, Katherine Campbell, President [...]
Continue reading about SMACKDOWN: League of Women Voters vs. Beverlee McClure
For those of you who are convinced that the legislative branch of government is incapable of getting anything done, you just haven’t seen the New Mexico State Senate’s Corporations Committee at work. Indeed, if you were there last week on Wednesday and Saturday nights, you would have witnessed an engine of legislative efficiency at work, [...]
Continue reading about Getting Corped: Their Legislature at Work
On Sept. 22, Sen. John Arthur Smith (D-Deming) and Sen. Tim Jennings (D-Roswell) sent out an “Open Letter to the Citizens of New Mexico” warning school districts in New Mexico to prepare themselves for significant cuts to allow the state to balance the FY2010 budget. The letter went out on Senate stationary – and attached [...]
Continue reading about Rep. Ben Rodefer Interview: “School funding cuts affect whole community”
Yesterday, as I was at the coffee shop waiting for my cup of joe, I noticed a headline on the front page of the ABQ Journal that brought out some frustration. The headline read, “Schools Told to Brace for Cuts.” The article started off by talking about how the Governor “was already warning education leaders [...]
Continue reading about Instead of cutting education, consider these revenues raisers
The State of New Mexico loses an estimated $80 million a year in revenues through a loophole that allows multistate corporations operating in the state to avoid corporate income tax. Moreover, as much as $5 billion is subtracted from potential state revenues through what are known as “tax expenditures” — tax deductions, exemptions, and credits [...]
