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Chuck Wellborn
Just a few observations and pithy comments, from someone who’s been
around a long time, and thinks that means he has something useful to say
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- Catholic Church
- Early Childhood Education
- Economic Development
- Education
- Indian Gaming
- Innovation-based Economic Development
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- New Mexico Taxes
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- State Taxes
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Hands Off My Medicare
We enjoyed that often-quoted Tea Party line from eight years ago: “Keep the government’s hands off my Medicare.” Sorry, dude. Looks like the government is putting its hands on your Medicare after all—at least if Republicans in...
New Mexico Taxes and Economic Development
Brian McDonald, Lee Reynis, Jim Peach, Chuck Wellborn THE GROSS RECEIPTS TAX The State’s tax system has a major structural problem and it relates to the gross receipts tax. New Mexico enacted an Emergency School Tax in...
Careful What You Ask For
In the “Careful What You Ask For” category, consider the timeworn political strategy of Republicans and their radio and television affiliates scaring the pants off the public. It’s no wonder the Republicans are pulling out all the...
The GOP Debate
The Republican Presidential candidates are complaining about the types of questions they received at the last debate and are threatening to set their own debate rules. To help out, here are some questions they might be looking...
Comcast is the AT&T of the 70s: Part II
My most recent post on Tuesday May 5 detailed how, during the three days starting April 28, I talked to a dozen or so Comcast employees by phone and in person trying to get internet and telephone...
Comcast is the AT&T of the 70s
In April, we moved out of our longtime residence to a condo at Park Plaza in downtown Albuquerque. Because the remodeling of our unit wasn’t to be done until late in April, we moved temporarily to a...
More Gambling, More Problem Gamblers
It’s hard to see why it makes any sense to approve the new Navajo gambling compact, especially when you consider that all the other gaming tribes are able to have the same agreement and all of them...
How Violent is Albuquerque?
In an opinion piece in the New York Times a few weeks back, the writer said he was glad to be leaving Albuquerque because it was a “land of violence” where the rate of violent crime was...
The Destruction of a Parish: Now What?
PART I. THE TAKEOVER AND THE AFTERMATH A former Aquinas Newman Center parishioner wanted to know if other former ANC parishioners were interested in celebrating Mass together at the Norbertine Community’s Abbey on South Coors. Knowing the...
The Aquinas Newman Center and the Traditionalists
From what I saw and what others are saying, it was quite an operation at the Aquinas Newman Center this week when the former Dominican chapel, as it had evolved over 64 years, was re-made into a...
