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Editorial: Little Guy Doesn’t Win When Congress Tinkers
Once again Congress appears to have leaped before it looked, taking action to punish big bad bankers without fully considering what could happen to the consumer, the littlest of the... Read more »
Editorial: Code Aims To Improve State Worker Conduct
Gov. Susana Martinez is raising the bar for the behavior required of state employees. The governor’s new code of conduct expands the ban on lobbying by political appointees who leave... Read more »
Editorial: Save Unemployment For Truly Unemployed
At some point New Mexico’s government bureaucracies should consider installing fiscal controls and maybe even reading the law; or they could just keep handing out other people’s money. It falls... Read more »
Editorial: SIC Suits an Investment In Fiscal Accountability
In the eight years Gov. Bill Richardson chaired the State Investment Council, state investment business allegedly was directed to companies that paid lucrative “finder’s fees” to people with political connections.... Read more »
Editorial: A Clean Cyber Getaway
Is this the future of cybercrime? It’s been almost a year since $700,000 was stolen from an online bank account of the New Mexico Educational Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit more... Read more »
Editorial: $24,000 Reasons Why State’s Jet Has To Go
It could be the next film-incentive project for New Mexico: Call it “Irresponsibility at $24,000 Feet.” Taxpayers have already invested that dollar amount in trips on the state’s air fleet;... Read more »
Editorial: Reactors a Perfect Fit?
Smaller might be better —and safer. Despite renewed fears of nuclear power in the wake of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, nuclear power supporters are forging ahead with a message that... Read more »
Editorial: Accountability Beats Free Seats Every Time
So who was that in the Bernalillo County manager’s free box at the Pavilion last year, groovin’ with Rihanna, head-bangin’ with Iron Maiden, rocking out with the Scorpions and kickin’... Read more »
Editorial: Well Test Results Have Air Force’s Attention
Detection of fuel-related chemicals in all of the new wells drilled to determine the extent of groundwater contamination from a Kirtland Air Force Base jet fuel leak re-enforce the seriousness... Read more »
Editorial: Drive State Through $2.3 Million Loophole
If there’s a $2.35 million loophole in the state’s unwanted track deal with BNSF Railway Co., then Gov. Susana Martinez is right to put on the engineer’s cap and drive... Read more »
SOUR NOTES
Don’t Play Chopin’s Funeral March Yet IS CLASSICAL music dead in New Mexico? From some of the signals lately, the answer would be a resounding yes. How else could an... Read more »
Editorial: America Did Not Rest In Search For Osama
The killing in Pakistan of al-Qaida chief and 911 mastermind Osama bin Laden at the hands of well-trained and well-armed U.S. Navy SEALs and CIA paramilitary agents demonstrates to terrorists... Read more »
