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| Walter Williams |
Williams: Answers from a Perfect Sociology Test
Finally an ADVOCATE for Job Creators
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| Jon Barela |
She assigned Barela to lead a 90-day process looking to help small business and on April 1, Barela’s department released a 13-page report filled with recommendations. Among the more specific recommendations involved environmental policies. The report urges the state to become an “observer” in the Western Climate Inititiative instead of an active participant. Late last year, the Environmental Improvement Board – stacked with appointees from the Bill Richardson administration — approved a measure that would place a limit on New Mexico’s greenhouse gas emissions. Environmentalists embrace the idea but business leaders across the state have criticized it, saying the program puts energy-producting companies at a competitive disadvantage to other states. The report suggests the state should “move to more of a ‘wait and watch’ for the science status [of global warming] similar to states such as Utah, Washington and Oregon who are not part of the cap and trade program.” The report also recommends that state rules and regulations — even those beyond environmental concerns – should not be more stringent than federal standards. As you’d expect, environmental groups are not happy with the report. Read full story here: New New Mexico
A.G. Update on 2009 Corruption Cases
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| Gary King |
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| Rebecca Vigil-Giron |
The judge simply said that, in his opinion, there were issues that cast shadows on the process and that, in an important case of government corruption such as this, those shadows had to be removed in order for justice to best be served and for the community to have complete confidence in the judicial process. While I may not necessarily agree with that assessment of potential doubt cast upon the process, I must respect the ruling. Read full column here: News New Mexico
Heath: Dianna Duran is Failing Open Gov't Test
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| Heath Haussamen |
NMPolitics - Last month Dianna Duran claimed to have evidence of foreign nationals illegally voting in elections, but she won’t share that evidence with the public. I’ve identified several potential public records act violations stemming from her dealings with me. When Secretary of State Dianna Duran claimed last month that her office had evidence of 37 foreign nationals illegally voting in elections, I expected documents to be forthcoming.
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| Dianna Duran |
Instead, I’ve spent a month going back and forth with the Secretary of State’s Office about my requests for records, and I have almost nothing to show for it except a handful of denials. Duran, in my view, has pushed the limits of what can be kept secret under the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) and is on very shaky ground. In other words, I’ve identified several potential IPRA violations stemming from her office’s dealings with me. Read full story here: News New Mexico
Mexico Ambassador:Our Cartel Leaders Are Businessmen, Not Terrorists
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| Arturo Sarukhan |
Susana is "PACing" Heat
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| Susana Martinez |
Does America Need Health Courts?
NY Daily News - Studies show that in the regular court system, at least one fourth of doctors are liable when they are truly blameless and are held blameless when they deserve blame. The current system does not even aspire to upholding reasonable standards of care. Instead it is an ad hoc process in which one jury may find a defendant liable, where another jury, considering the same facts, may not. That has bred a toxic culture. Doctors will do almost anything to avoid being dragged through the courts.
No wonder more than half of all states have caps on malpractice liability yet still have rampant defensive medicine. Nor is the current system effective for injured patients - it takes an average of five years for a case to be resolved, almost 60% of an award goes to lawyers and administrative costs and in those one-fourth of the cases in which doctors who made mistakes escape blame, the victims get nothing. Read full story here: News New Mexico
Obama Officials: Plan Dump of General Motors Stake
AFP - NEW YORK — A report that the US government plans to sell off much of its remaining stake in General Motors this year despite the firm's lackluster share price caused investors to flee the stock Tuesday. After the Wall Street Journal reported a government sale could come within the next six months, GM's shares fell by nearly 1.3 percent to end at $29.59. The government sale would "almost certainly" mean that US taxpayers would take a loss from a politically controversial $50 billion rescue of the auto giant in 2009, according to the paper. The government would need to sell its roughly 500 million shares for $53 dollars each in order to break even, but GM's stock is currently hovering at a price of just under $30 per share. At the current price, the government would lose more than $11 billion, but the Obama administration is willing to accept the loss in order to cut its last ties to the auto manufacturer, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources. Read full story here: News New Mexico
Analyzing the Martinez Veto of SB 19
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| Thomas Molitor |
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