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For several years the city council in New Mexico's second largest city has been dominated by progressive anti-business types. These days they are eyeing new fees, costly ordinances, and onerous rules and regulations that will further damage a construction industry that is experiencing 65% unemployment rates. A case in point is an effort to pass a local “Dust Ordinance.” This proposal will cause the city itself to bear huge costs to stay in compliance on its city-owned vacant and disturbed land.
It seems that professional engineer’s explanations of why this area is dusty are continuously ignored. As yet another wave of codes and rules looms it seems likely that Las Cruces is sure to begin wasting water and money on dust that has been in the Mesilla Valley for two hundred million years. Las Cruces residents are about to get another reminder of why elections matter and eco-dreamers are in reality uninformed job killers.
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I don't think there are any subjects left to punish. This mayor and city council have pretty much annihilated anyone who thought they could build homes on their watch. What they've effectively done is made sure no one NEW EVER thinks they can make a profit in the construction business in this town. From the destructive, anti-business policies passed by this gaggle of buffoons, one can only surmise that this city council takes it personal when someone dares to run a successful business without kissing the Don's ring. And all the while, the unemployed wonder why there are no jobs in Las Cruces and why the local economy continues to worsen. The mayor and the city council's collective absence of intellectual resources and capacity to understand fundamental business concepts is profoundly depressing. First you have to wonder how these people were ever elected and next whether or not this community will ever recover from their crippling anti-growth policies. ANY business growth realized in this community is accidental and in spite of them.
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