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There’s been lots of talk about economic recovery lately, but there’s no good news on the jobs front in New Mexico. Again and again, the business…
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It was reported recently that 7 out of 10 live births in New Mexico are on Medicaid.Astonishing, troubling…arguably, the most painful statistic of all for…
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The other day, when I was supposed to be doing something else, I was casually reviewing my own profile on Linked In -- the online network for…
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Opening day in the NM Senate is always filled with high drama. This year was no exception. The tension centers on who will be elected President Pro Tem, a…
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It’s time to stop the minimum wage madness in New Mexico! Setting price floors for human labor is both bad economics and unfair to the very workers it is…
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It had to be my imagination.I thought cigarette smoking was a dying pastime—no pun intended.But all around us—young smokers. Lots and lots of them. Teens…
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The tragic shooting in Connecticut has set me thinking about our own state’s gun laws, and what the legislature has done to expand gun ownership-- even…
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K-12 education reform is direly needed in New Mexico. The latest evidence for that is a report from the US Department of Education which studied and…
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New Mexico may not have been a swing state this year in the presidential election, but someone upped the ante when it came to the legislature. SuperPacs…
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People often complain there are too many lawyers in the world, and you may think they have a point. After all, an astonishing 40,000 students graduate…