Errors of Enchantment

1 week ago | errorsofenchantment.com | Paul Gessing

Matthew Mitchell of the Canadian free market think tank Fraser Institute (Matt lives in Angel Fire, NM) recently made a compelling presentation on economic freedom (or the lack thereof) in New Mexico at a Rio Grande Foundation sponsored event in Albuquerque. You can find Matt’s highly informative slides here. While we don’t have a recording of his presentation, earlier that morning Matt was interviewed by Bob Clark. You can check out their conversation below.

1 week ago | errorsofenchantment.com | Paul Gessing

On this week’s interview Paul sits down with Albuquerque mayoral candidate Mayling Armijo. Armijo has been involved in economic development at various levels of government and has filled out the RGF mayoral candidate survey which highlights her views on economic development. Although new to electoral politics Armijo has plans to bring significant change to Albuquerque. Don’t miss this important conversation.

1 week ago | errorsofenchantment.com | Paul Gessing

So many of our efforts at the Rio Grande Foundation are focused on New Mexico and its myriad problems, but Social Security is a major issue for all Americans. Alas, when America had a chance to reform the program back during the George W. Bush Administration the effort failed. American Enterprise Institute did a full report and the following chart was put together by our friends at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

1 week ago | errorsofenchantment.com | Paul Gessing

Paul stopped by the No Kings rally in ABQ on Saturday. He offers a full report. Route 66 visitors center highlights failure of government. We have received a few candidate surveys back. They can be found at ErrorsofEnchantment.comNew Mexico (stupidly) joins California lawsuit over EV mandate repeal. RGF “beats the heat” attending “fiesta” in Albuquerque. New Mexico NPR/PBS stations among the most dependent on federal $$:We talked last week about NM’s 50th ranking in Kids Count.

1 week ago | errorsofenchantment.com | Paul Gessing

Many thanks to Daniel Chacon of the Santa Fe New Mexican for covering an issue that we highlighted. The following is from Chacon’s recent Roundhouse Report article. Emails deleted by the executive branch will disappear faster than they have in the past. The New Mexico Department of Information Technology has implemented a new email retention policy in which deleted emails will now be “permanently purged” after a month, a major change from the previous one-year retention policy.