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• Heard about Soros and his anti-free market think tank?

  —Errors of Enchantment

  Sometimes I am a bit jealous of liberals. The Rio Grande Foundation is one of the leanest and most effective organizations around. Just google our name and read through the reams of news articles and data and understand that our budget is sub-$500,000. Then there is left-wing billionaire George Soros [...]

  Fetched: November 17, 2009, 3:22pm EST
  

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• RGF Releases New Mexico Tax Friendliness Report, Tax Calculator

  —Errors of Enchantment

  New Mexico’s free market think tank, the Rio Grande Foundation, has made public on its website a revised and updated tool for families to calculate their property and gross receipts tax burdens in New Mexico’s 10 largest cities. Using publicly-available property tax and gross receipts tax (GRT) data for each city [...]

  Fetched: November 16, 2009, 1:27pm EST
  

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• Watchdog Round-Up ‘Round the Nation

  —Errors of Enchantment

  The Rio Grande Foundation's New Mexico Watchdog, though it stands on its own, is part of a national network of Watchdog investigative reporting projects in other states. Jim Scarantino, who edits and reports for New Mexico Watchdog, is a former attorney. The Watchdogs in other states are run ... [...]

  Fetched: November 13, 2009, 10:22am EST
  

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• Abortion and the Health Care Bill

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  As a state-level economic policy organization, the Rio Grande Foundation does not take a position on social issues like abortion. But With narrow passage of the House health care bill made possible by strict limits on taxpayer subsidies for abortion under the plan, the debate over abortion policy has moved [...]

  Fetched: November 12, 2009, 9:25am EST
  

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• Upcoming RGF Events!

  —Errors of Enchantment

  The Rio Grande Foundation has announced two upcoming events. The first is an Albuquerque showing of "Not Evil Just Wrong." The showing will take place on November 21 and we will be co-sponsoring the event with the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE) and the Albuquerque Tea Party. The showing [...]

  Fetched: November 07, 2009, 4:22pm EST
  

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• Consider the Source: Scarantino Busted on Exaggerated Claims on Denish Spending

  —Democracy for New Mexico

  

  I've held back on discussing this week's wingnuttery attacks by James Scarantino -- who writes for a blog paid for by the right-wing Rio Grande Foundation -- on Lt. Governor Diane Denish. Scarantino asserted in a post this week that Denish had misused' [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:59pm EST
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• Digging deeper into claims over Denish's stimulus spending

  —New Mexico FBIHOP

  Heath Haussamen dug deeper into a story "broke" by New Mexico Watchdog, a project of the libertarian group the Rio Grande Foundation, and wrote a great commentary on the money, where it came from, where it went and what was proper and improper.

  Haussamen concluded:Though I'm not certain at all,' [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:03pm EST
  

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• New Mexico is a Big Movie Lot, You’re just an extra

  —Errors of Enchantment

  We at the Rio Grande Foundation have long been critics of the massive subsidies -- 25 cents on the dollar -- not to mention $15 million interest free loans. But imagine my surprise when I saw that one of the two most important roads in New Mexico (I-40) was ... [...]

  Fetched: October 29, 2009, 9:32am EDT
  

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• Introducing New Mexico Watchdog

  —Errors of Enchantment

  In case you haven't already seen it, the Rio Grande Foundation has launched a new site called New Mexico Watchdog. While the Rio Grande Foundation's investigative reporter Jim Scarantino handles much of the day-to-day work associated with the project, we encourage others to provide tips and help us uncover new' [...]

  Fetched: October 29, 2009, 9:32am EDT
  

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• Feds to release endangered minnows in Big Bend

  —The Westerner

  Thousands of endangered Rio Grande silvery minnows reared at a national hatchery in New Mexico were being prepared Wednesday to be trucked to Texas, where the tiny fish will be released into the Rio Grande near Big Bend National Park. The release is part of a five-year experiment by the [...]

  Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:15am EDT
  

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• Positive Response to Government Employment Work

  —Errors of Enchantment

  In case you missed it, the Rio Grande Foundation has been doing a great deal of work on the issue of New Mexico's bloated government bureaucracy. This should be a prime area for cuts during the ongoing special session. Thankfully, it seems like we have a fair amount of support [...]

  Fetched: October 22, 2009, 12:01pm EDT
  

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• Rio Grande Foundation launches new Web site

  —New Mexico Independent

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  The free market folks at the Rio Grande Foundation have launched an investigative news Web site, New Mexico Watchdog.
  
  Jim Scarantino, an attorney and former columnist for the Albuquerque Journal and Weekly Alibi, wrote about the launch of the site on New Mexico Liberty, saying “We’re [...]

  Posted: October 21, 2009, 7:58pm EDT
  by Matthew Reichbach

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• New Mexico’s New Watchdog

  —Errors of Enchantment

  The Rio Grande Foundation has launched an investigative news site: http://newmexico.watchdog.org/ We're still building the site and will do a "hard launch" soon. This is an early notice to our friends who visit this site. New Mexico Watchdog is associated with other Watchdog investigative reporting sites launched so far in' [...]

  Fetched: October 21, 2009, 5:54pm EDT
  

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• Small tea party crowd gathers at the Roundhouse

  —New Mexico Independent

  

  Gessing addressing a crowd in the Rotunda

  About 40 protesters, some wearing “Santa Fe Tea Party” t-shirts, gathered in the Roundhouse rotunda Saturday morning to show their support for free market economics.

  Paul Gessing, President of the Rio Grande Foundation said that [...]

  Posted: October 17, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
  by Matthew Reichbach

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