Tipping Point New Mexico
Public policy podcast of the Rio Grande Foundation
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Episodes
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600 Special Session On The Way, Gun Loophole, Federal Education Report and more
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
On this week’s Tipping Point conversation Paul and Wally discuss: MLG calls a special session starting July 18. We don’t have an exact agenda, but initial statements seem to point to some actual crime reforms, not gun grabs. Time will tell.
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599 Johnny Johnson – Issues Facing New Mexico’s Trucking Industry
Thursday, April 18, 2024
On this week’s interview Paul talks to Johnny Johnson, executive director of the New Mexico Trucking Association. Like the auto industry truckers are also being forced by government policymakers to embrace electric vehicles.
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598 LNG Ban is Loser, New Mexico only State to See Drop in Immigrant Numbers, Security Firm “Fires” Albuquerque Client and more
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Biden’s permitting ban on LNG exports is a loser across the spectrum. A former NPR executive recently said there’s bias at NPR. Here’s our story about NPR in New Mexico. NM is the only state in US to see a drop in immigrant numbers from 10 years ago.
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597 Nella Domenici, Candidate For United States Senate
Thursday, April 11, 2024
On this week’s interview Paul talks to Nella Domenici. Domenici is the Republican Party candidate for US Senate in New Mexico. She is longtime Senator Pete Domenici’s daughter. Paul and Nella discuss what that was like and what formed her politics,
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596 House Republicans Elect Leaders, I-40 Crumbles, Request for $250 Million to Reduce I-25 Emissions and more
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
New Mexico’s House Republicans have elected new leaders. Paul and Wally know the players and discuss. While I-40 crumbles NM asks feds for $250 million to reduce emissions on I-25. The left doubles down on EV mandates.
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595 William L. Kovacs – “Devolution of Power: Rolling Back the Federal State to Preserve the Republic”
Thursday, April 4, 2024
On this week’s interview Paul talks to William L. Kovacs. Kovacs was senior vice president for environment, technology & regulatory affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a chief counsel on Capitol Hill.
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594 NM Invests $50 million in California Climate Fund, No Playground for You! and much more
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
NM SIC invests $50 million in CA-based climate investment fund. Diane Denish used her political connections to MLG to squash a playground proposed for her neighborhood. CA fast food workers are losing their jobs as $20 minimum wage kicks in.
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593 Dennis Roch – PED’s Power Trip
Thursday, March 28, 2024
New Mexico’s Public Education Department (under the direction of Gov. Lujan Grisham) has been aggressively pushing mandates on 5 day school weeks and a transformational change to the State’s accreditation system.
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592 Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Utility Cost Increases, State Land Royalty Rate for Oil and Gas and more
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
On this week’s show Paul and Wally recognize the victims of the recent bridge collapse and boat incident in Baltimore and discuss how that will impact the economy. New Mexico utility cost increases starting to kick in. But, at least in California,
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591 Senator Bill Tallman’s Negative Assessment of New Mexico Capital Outlay System and Economic Development Approaches
Thursday, March 21, 2024
On this week’s show Paul interviews retiring Democrat State Senator Bill Tallman. Tallman and Gessing discuss his long track record of public service prior to coming to New Mexico and serving as a State Senator.