If you haven't heard about the hidden note to legislators from California Governor Schwarzeneggar, you'll definitely want to check out Steve Terrell's recent post. Coincidence? Yeah, right.' [...] So we are sticking with our plan and paying the tax. But what bothers me most is that a similar health-care mandate is being [...]
Prepare to be shocked: Did you know that in New Mexico a family of four with taxable income of just $16,001 [...]
Legislators expect the current revenue shortfall to grow - perhaps to $550 million or more - because of continued weakening of tax collections during the recession.
To prepare for that possibility, lawmakers are pushing for larger spending [...]
Overall city revenues declined by 0.4%, even as' [...]
Since the government holds its 79.9% interest in' [...]
Researchers used to agree that farm-grown fuels would cut emissions because they all made a shockingly basic error. They gave fuel crops' [...]
But why did taxpayers, having already bailed out GM and Chrysler once, have to do so again to the tune of $3 billion [...]
The state Democratic Party’s vice chair, Annadelle Sanchez, declined to talk' [...]
Our friends over at the Errors of Enchantment blog have picture perfectly captured the summation of Mayor Martin Chavez's leadership:And Bingaman also weighed in on his so-far unsuccessful push to include obesity prevention and treatment programs as part of a major health care reform bill — NMI’s Gwyneth Doland talked with him last week about that effort. In a [...]
New Mexico students did not improve their academic' [...]
In its November bankruptcy filing, Eclipse said it had more than $1 billion in liabilities and 5,000-plus creditors, but only between $100 million and $500 million in assets.
[...]We have become so accustomed to employer-provided medical care that we regard it as part of the natural order. Yet it is [...]
Not local political junkies (like us at' [...]
