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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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Legislature faces both peril, opportunity in 2019

With New Mexico’s politics trending hard left, what is a fiscally conservative think tank that focuses on New Mexico’s still-shaky economic situation to do? Quite simply, there will be more to do than ever. For starters, New Mexico’s $1.1 billion...
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Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation: Albuquerque Luncheon With Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr on January 23

Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation: Albuquerque Luncheon With Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr on January 23 Click here for registration form. Kenneth W. Starr is a former United States Federal Court of Appeals Judge, U.S....
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APS tax increase: Is it worth it? No

Ballots for the Albuquerque Public Schools special mail-in election are showing up in mailboxes. Voters have until Feb. 5 to mail their ballots back to ensure they are counted. Voters should beware that they will be asked to vote on a major...
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Ballots for the Albuquerque Public Schools property tax hike are in the mail: RGF president Paul Gessing sat down with KOB TV to discuss

RGF president Paul Gessing sat down with KOB TV to discuss the tax increase for Albuquerque Public Schools. Ballots are in the mail.
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Gessing talks APS tax hike (and he and others question their fancy mailing) w/ KOAT Channel 7:

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New video on donor disclosure highlights RGF Santa Fe lawsuit

The Rio Grande Foundation opposed the creation of a new soda tax in Santa Fe in 2016 and spoke out against it with a video and website. The City has a law on the books that requires groups to disclose their donors if they spend more than $250 on a...
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