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...