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Crib Sheet: July 8th, 2018

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 story from Searchlight New Mexico on the state’s relentless “brain drain”.

The Crib Sheet is a collection of stories, events, and ideas that are shaping the conversation in New Mexico and D.C. politics.

[New Mexico]
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[Tech & Strategy]
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  • Senator Martin Heinrich continues on his push to make White Sands National Monument a national park.
  • Jockey Mike Smith, who last month became the 12th jockey in history and the only one from New Mexico to win the Triple Crown, is being celebrated one more time as Governor Martinez proclaimed today as “Mike E. Smith Day.”