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- How does New Mexico stack up with big red and blue states?
- Lujan Grisham’s GRT cut fails to address issues
- Opinion piece: Economic Freedom Takes a Hit in New Mexico
- New Mexico falls further behind in latest economic freedom report
- RGF discusses NM’s slow unemployment recovery w/ KRQE Channel 13
- RGF offers thoughts on United’s future stadium ambitions
Tipping Point New Mexico
Tipping Point New Mexico is the official podcast of the Rio Grande Foundation that addresses public policy issues facing New Mexico, hosted by Paul Gessing, President of the Rio Grande Foundation, and Wally Drangmeister.
358 Lynne Andersen of NAIOP – Tipping Point New Mexico
Issues
Errors of Enchantment
Errors of Enchantment is the official blog of the Rio Grande Foundation that addresses public policy issues facing New Mexico.
- Lynne Andersen has been a fixture in Albuquerque politics for decades as the leader of NAIOP (more on that organization in the podcast). Lynne is leaving the organization at the end of this year and Paul wanted to find out all about her lengthy history in New Mexico politics and how things have changed over […]
- A new story in the Albuquerque Journal discusses the boom going on in New Mexico’s oil and gas industry. According to the story, “In raw numbers, the industry generated almost $5.3 billion in revenue for state and local governments in the 2021 fiscal year – a 12% increase over 2020 and more than twice as much […]
- The next time Gov. Lujan Grisham touts teacher pay raises and all of the new spending being funneled into New Mexico’s public education system, be sure to remember this new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research which shows how keeping students out of the classroom negatively impacted student performance on test scores. The chart […]
- On this week’s podcast, Paul and Wally begin with a discussion of NM’s COVID infection situation and the rise of the Omicron variant. Why is NM’s data so slow and how is the infection situation evolving? Biden’s nominee to be Comptroller of Currency appears to be an actual communist or at least has communist sympathies. […]
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