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Self-Sustaining When? Heaven Only Knows!
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Higher Taxes ... the Last Thing New Mexico Needs!
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New Mexico's Extraction Industries ... What Next?
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New Mexico’s Top Issues

Worker freedom is dying in NM

After only three months in office, Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently signed a bill ratcheting back worker freedom and local control in New Mexico. In March, the state legislature voted against worker freedom by explicitly prohibiting...
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Freedom Index Results Highlight Challenging 2019 Legislative Session

(Albuquerque) The Rio Grande Foundation has tracked floor votes in New Mexico’s Legislature from the perspective of individual freedom (both economic and under the US Constitution) for several years. Final results for the 2019 Legislature are...
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Weighing in on Las Cruces job growth and business-friendliness (or lack thereof)

Job growth dismal Las Cruces businessman Dave Hooker hit a nerve when he complained about the city's business climate. He said many things that the Rio Grande Foundation has been saying for years about economic policies in Las Cruces and the state....
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Rio Grande Foundation Videos

RGF logo contest catches media attention

The Rio Grande Foundation has announced a contest to create a new, more accurate logo for the New Mexico Land Office. See the report from Channel 13 below:
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RGF president Paul Gessing discussed the 2019 session's outcome with KOB TV Channel 4. The story is below, but my tweet explains our general take on what happened:
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APS sends surveys out, I discuss with KRQE Channel 13

In the wake of a stinging rebuke at the hands of voters, Albuquerque Public Schools has sent surveys out to parents asking what they think the priorities of the district should be. As I explain to Channel 13, it is a decent idea, but to be...
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