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Tipping Point New Mexico

Feb 26, 2019

On this week's podcast Paul and Wally discuss the Albuquerque City Council's action (or lack thereof) on its plastics ban and a defeat for New Mexico's new Land Commissioner on increasing royalty payments. Since Texas is the "model" for Commissioner Garcia-Richard, Gessing encourages New Mexico's political leaders to...


Feb 22, 2019

Paul talks with Daniel Libit of NMFishbowl.com. NMfishbowl.com is Daniel's project that covers the University of New Mexico athletics department from a watchdog journalistic perspective.  Paul discusses numerous issues related to Daniel's activities including lawsuits to gain access to UNM Foundation and Lobo Club...


Feb 19, 2019

Amazon pulls the plug on NYC. What happened? How generous were those subsidies? How do they stack up compared to what New Mexico gives the film industry? Should young people leave New Mexico or stick it out?
 
ABQ City Council is expected to vote on plastic bag ban on Wednesday. The Rio Grande Foundation is fighting yet...


Feb 19, 2019

Paul Gessing sits down with Trent England to discuss efforts in the New Mexico Legislature to make New Mexico nearly irrelevant in US presidential elections. Paul and also discuss minimum wages and Trent's "bird's eye view" of the minimum wage hikes that happened in Washington State where he used to work.
 
Trent is...


Feb 12, 2019

Paul and Wally give one more quick recap of the APS tax hike vote. Specifically, the APS bureaucracy has attacked the Rio Grande Foundation. What does it all mean? 
 
With everything else going on, the Foundation had an op-ed on Albuquerque's proposed plastic ban. Paul and Wally discuss the details.
 
The Foundation put...