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| Janice Arnold-Jones |
Janice Returns!
I Like Guns
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| Michael and Conrad both Like Guns |
Update by Michael Swickard: I neither like nor dislike guns. They are only tools that represent the ability to protect oneself against bigger and stronger attackers. The police will arrive in minutes but often you only have seconds. I do a shooting workout regularly and clean my tools often. Maybe I will go through my entire life without a need. However: better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
Will NM Bond Ratings be Collateral Damage?
Bloomberg - 
Five of the 15 states with top bond ratings from Moody’s Investors Service may be downgraded because their dependence on federal revenue makes them vulnerable to a U.S. credit cut should talks to raise the debt limit fail. Maryland, South Carolina, New Mexico, Tennessee and Virginia are under review, Moody’s said today. The action affects $24 billion of general-obligation and related debt, it said. The states are rated Aaa, Moody’s top municipal grade. The credit evaluator said on July 13 it may cut the federal government’s Aaa rating as congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama’s administration failed to agree on raising the U.S. debt limit. Moody’s said the next day it would scrutinize top-rated states, municipalities, housing programs and other debt issuers. Read full story here: News New Mexico
Five of the 15 states with top bond ratings from Moody’s Investors Service may be downgraded because their dependence on federal revenue makes them vulnerable to a U.S. credit cut should talks to raise the debt limit fail. Maryland, South Carolina, New Mexico, Tennessee and Virginia are under review, Moody’s said today. The action affects $24 billion of general-obligation and related debt, it said. The states are rated Aaa, Moody’s top municipal grade. The credit evaluator said on July 13 it may cut the federal government’s Aaa rating as congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama’s administration failed to agree on raising the U.S. debt limit. Moody’s said the next day it would scrutinize top-rated states, municipalities, housing programs and other debt issuers. Read full story here: News New Mexico
Hispanic Cultural Center Pays $5,000 Fine
According to Veritas New Mexico - The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC)’s private fundraising foundation has paid a $5,000 fine ordered by Secretary of State Dianna J. Duran, state Bureau of Elections Director Bobbi Shearer confirmed Tuesday. The NHCC Foundation will not contest the fine for violations of the state lobbying law, and “will endeavor to meet all requirements of the Lobbyist Regulation Act in the future,” attorney Brad L. Hays told Duran in a July 14 letter accompanying a $5,000 check.
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| Clara Apodaca |
The Foundation has also now registered as a lobbying entity for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011, Hays wrote, and will follow up “in a timely manner” with the required lobbying expenditures and political contributions forms for each of those years. “We appreciate that the Foundation acknowledged its responsibility under the law and is complying with the Lobbyist Regulation Act,” Sec. Duran said Tuesday. “The Secretary of State’s office will continue to work to insure full compliance with the Act.” Read full story here: News New Mexico
Santa Fe New Mexican Editorial Warns Bingaman to "Beware of Sneak Attacks"
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| Jeff Bingaman with John Kerry and Harry Reid |
Top Water Manager Sought
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| Elephant Butte Dam |
Steve Pearce Calls on President, Senate to Take Action to Face Our Nation’s Debt Crisis
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| Steve Pearce |
The President said last week that “we don’t need a constitutional amendment to do our jobs,” but in less than three years in office, the President has already increased the national debt by 3.7 trillion. This is more than the entire national debt accumulated between 1776 and 1992. The Cut, Cap, and Balance Act provides a long-term plan to address the nation’s out-of-control debt problem.
Rep. Pearce has been in active communication with constituents on the debt limit issue, including discussions at town hall meetings, email surveys, on Facebook, and through other interaction. In a recent email survey to 47,000 constituents, over 83 percent of those who responded said that they do not support legislation like what the President asked for—a debt limit increase with no corresponding spending cuts. An overwhelming 93 percent said that Washington is not doing enough to address our national debt, and over 97 percent, said that the national debt is important to them, with 92% calling it “very important.” 
GOP House Members Picking Apart "Gang" Plan
LCPS - Austerity for Teachers, Not Central Office
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| Stan Rounds |
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| Susanna Martinez |
Earlier this year conflicts between the Martinez administration and the Albuquerque Public Schools over resource management issues were widely reported. Similarly, it appears that these administrative expansions at the LCPS central office seem to directly contradict the objective of creating an administrative austerity philosophy that was encouraged by new Governor Susana Martinez in the wake of the state's budget woes. We also have reports that the additions to the size of the administrative staff at LCPS have not gone unnoticed by school teachers who are deeply frustrated by what many of them perceive to be duplicity and a complete lack of shared sacrifice.
PNM Tries to Hold Down Costs Enviornmentalists Object
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