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Gov Martinez hosts Little League Champs
From Facebook - New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez and First Gentleman Chuck Franco hosted the Eastside Albuquerque Little League World Champs at the Governor's Mansion Wednesday Night. Eastside won the World Championship earlier this month in Farmington.
State Employees Share Only 23% of Rising Healthcare Premium Costs to the State
To fill most of the gap, the General Services Department will ask the Legislature for $10 million next year to cover higher rates proposed for government agencies. Increases in state worker premiums will only cover about 23% of the increase that is likely to be implemented in the fiscal year starting July 2013.
While businesses and individuals in the private sector have paid for health insurance premium hikes every year since 2007, New Mexico state government worker's costs have remained unchanged for those five years.
Martinez Estimates $270 Million Revenue Surplus
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| Susana Martinez and Chuck Franco on Inauguration Day |
Martinez promised a science-based common sense approach to energy policy and basic spending discipline when she took office. Apparently the governor has already delivered on those promises.
According a report by the Associated Press earlier today new financial forecasts of state tax revenues are $270 million above what was originally projected to be collected. Budget officials within the Martinez administration revealed the latest revenue projections to the Legislative Finance Committee during a meeting in Angel Fire earlier today. This good fiscal and political news for Martinez comes on the heels of a trip the governor will be making to Tampa, Florida early next week. There she is set make a prime time speech at the Republcan National Convention. Martinez is slated to address the GOP faithful just before keynote speaker Chris Christie takes the podium.
Sowell on 2016: "The Audience Was Riveted"
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| Thomas Sowell |
Townhall - Years, and sometimes decades, pass between my visits to movie theaters. But I drove 30 miles to see the movie "2016," based on Dinesh D'Souza's best-selling book, "The Roots of Obama's Rage." Where I live is so politically correct that such a movie would not even be mentioned, much less shown.
Every seat in the theater was filled, even though there had been an earlier showing that day, and more showings were scheduled for the rest of the afternoon and evening. I had to sit on a staircase in the balcony, but it was worth it.
The audience was riveted. You could barely hear a sound from them, or detect a movement, and certainly not smell popcorn. Yet the movie had no bombast, no violence, no sex and no spectacular visual effects.
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