When I was attending Webster University in the Netherlands in 2016, I spent much of my time outside of class working on organizing a fundraiser with some other students from my university. We were raising money for VluchtenlingenWerk Nederland, an organization that helps bring refugees into the Netherlands. We even met face to face with…
Category: Policy
Crib Sheet: July 19th, 2018
“The Martinez administration has been openly hostile to unions from her first day in office, so it doesn’t surprise us.”– Carter Bundy, AFSCME director, in an Albuquerque Journal story reporting that New Mexico state government has stopped payroll deductions from nonunion workers after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month that ended “fair share” fees.…
Crib Sheet: July 8th, 2018
The single biggest problem is that people think they’re going to find a quick solution. But successes won’t play out in the two to four years of an election cycle. In fact, the economy might get worse before it gets better. – Jeff Mitchell, director of UNM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, in a…
53rd New Mexico Legislature 2nd Session Preview
Santa Fe – This year’s legislative session kicks off Tuesday at noon and is scheduled to end after thirty days on Thursday, February 15th. The bills that make it out of both houses have until March 7th to be signed by the governor or are automatically vetoed by the so-called pocket veto. Due to the…