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How Open Admission” Policies at New Mexico Comprehensive Universities Fail Students & Taxpayers

(Albuquerque, NM) – At some “Comprehensive” universities in New Mexico, particularly: ENMU, Highlands, Northern, and WNMU, all you need to get in is a high school diploma. In a new Rio Grande Foundation policy brief by William P. Leonard, PhD, “How...

What Big Wind doesn’t tell us

Earlier this month, the Washington, D.C.-based American Wind Energy Association came to Santa Fe to release its national “market” report for 2017. The slick marketing materials the lobbying organization dispensed at the Roundhouse claimed that wind...

Local victories are freeing New Mexico workers

The following appeared in the Washington Examiner on April 26, 2018: Right-to-work policies have spread like wildfire across the country in recent years, but the latest movement is happening at the local level. It started in Kentucky,...

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