“There’s hope. I think there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s maybe not as bright as we’d like it to be.” – State Representative Larry Larrañaga, on the state’s budget woes. The Albuquerque Journal took a look at the state’s volatile operating budget over the last nine years. The Crib Sheet…
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Crib Sheet: September 25th, 2017
“We will be investing roughly $4 billion, next year, of capital in the Permian Basin, and we plan to grow production over the next several years to well in excess of 400,000 bpd” – Ryan Krogmeier, a Chevron executive, talking to a conference of traders in Singapore. He added that the Permian Basin is “the…

Nota Bene: We Will Never Forget...By Studying
I. I was a freshman at Las Cruces High School on 9/11/2001. The post cold war, Pax Americana had come to an end and all of our rose colored millennial lives were about to change; we couldn’t articulate it at the time but knew the dawn of a new geo-political struggle that began to ensue…

The Fight for the Right
I have been a registered Republican since I was 18 years old but have been active politically long before that. In my short time I have seen many changes in the party of Lincoln: the peak in influence of the neoconservative Bush Doctrine in the early 2000s, the rebirth of the Tea Party a decade…