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| Kathryn Lopez |
Kathryn Lopez - The Great Restoration
More Than A Healthy Stock Market?
If America wants more jobs and prosperity it will have to be accompanied by a healthy stock market. Unfortunately, with national economic confidence incinerated one has to wonder why would the president make the statement, "We need more than a healthy stock market." Was this chide an intentional slap against people with retirement accounts? These folks are praying for a return to decent returns on their holdings. Was it a scoff at retirees living on their investments? Was it a smack at public and private pension funds everywhere that fund monthly checks to beneficiaries out of their investments? Does Washington realize that with the Federal Reserve making sure its monetary policy allows the federal government to borrow trillions of dollars at bargain basement interest rates, that all citizens with savings including the "middle class" are getting hosed? We think not.
Who knows what the thought processes are inside the heads of those composing these canned dumbing down messages that come out of Washington. A few things seem increasingly clear. With no management experience, no business experience, and even precious little political experience in the White House, it looks like investors are going to have to wait a little longer for Washington to differentiate between the trailer and the engine. 
As the Secretary of State Turns
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| Mary Herrera |
Forced to be foolishly fuelish
Richardson: Cannon in "good shape" for next BRAC
From the Clovis News Journal - Gov. Bill Richardson believes New Mexico always needs to be ready to defend itself for a Base Realignment and Closure round, but Cannon Air Force Base is in good shape. Regarding Cannon Air Force Base, he thought the transition to Air Force Special Operations Command will serve the base well when an inevitable BRAC round comes. “There will be another BRAC round,” said Richardson, who took part in the state-wide effort to save Cannon from a 2005 closure recommendation. “I believe Cannon Air Force Base is really strong. It’s increasing jobs in the area, it’s going to have more functions, it’s growing. I would say the Air Force and the military will recommend it not be shut down. We have four bases in New Mexico, so we have to remain vigilant.” Read more
Dawgs Go To 2-0 Beat Cibola 21-14
Commentary: Mexico needs our help, not our troops
From McClatchy.com - By Andres Oppenheimer of the Miami Herald - The escalation of drug-related violence in Mexico — including the mass execution of 72 migrants last week — is moving a small but growing number of U.S. foreign policy hawks to call for a radical solution: send in the U.S. Army. I'm not kidding. At first, I thought it was a joke, or the kind of overreaction that is most often confined to the blogosphere. But, increasingly, populist local U.S. officials are seriously talking about sending in U.S. troops to end the drug-related violence that has cost 28,000 lives in Mexico over the past four years, and that occasionally spills over to the U.S. side of the border. Read more
Dems have few options on economy
From the Politico - by Ben White - With another tepid jobs report in the books Friday, Democrats desperate for quick policy action to boost the economy face an excruciating dilemma, experts say. The few things that might pass Congress — such as a payroll tax holiday or extended research-and-development tax credits — won’t work, or at least not before November’s midterm elections, when Democrats face potentially devastating losses. What to do? If you’re President Barack Obama, you go out and talk about the economy — in Milwaukee on Monday, Cleveland on Wednesday and at a White House news conference Friday. He’s expected to propose some new business tax breaks next week, including possibly a payroll tax break and R&D credits, but the White House said no final decisions have been made. Read more
Holloman chimps heading for new lab tests in Texas
From the New Mexico Independent - After ten years of retirement at Holloman Air Force Base, more than 100 U.S. government-owned chimpanzees who were used for decades in NASA and federal medical studies, are now heading to a government lab in San Antonio, Texas, for new tests of experimental hepatitis C and hepatitis B vaccines, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Animal rights groups oppose the move and want Congress to enact an outright ban on federal chimpanzee research. Gov. Bill Richardson and U.S. Sen. Tom Udall oppose moving the chimps to Texas. Richardson met with NIH officials last month to lobby for the chimps’ continued retirement in Alamogordo, according to the Los Angeles Times. Read more
Martinez has high hopes for repeal of medical marijuana
From the New Mexico Independent - by Trip Jennings - Republican Susana Martinez has said she would work to repeal New Mexico’s medical marijuana program if she’s elected governor. But undoing the state’s three-year-old medical marijuana law would represent a major undertaking. There are only two routes — through the Legislature or voter referendum — and neither would be easy. If elected governor, Martinez could appoint a secretary of health hostile to the program, officials said. Because governors control executive branch agencies, the state’s chief executive could direct an agency to make regulations so strict that they effectively stop a program’s day-to-day operations. Martinez didn’t answer our questions about whether she might choose such an option if elected governor. Read more
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