I have written about the debt before, but it bears repeating until Congress takes action. What frustrates those who are paying attention to the debt is that it is not an unsolvable problem. It’s been fixed before, even within recent memory for many people.
New Mexico has a problem of its own making: the Educational Retirement Board (ERB) is preventing retired educators from working as independent contractors, even when their services are limited, specialized, and urgently needed.
If you seek to isolate CYFD away from “political influence” because you don’t trust the cabinet secretary charged with leading the department, you are blaming the wrong person.
A Zia Pueblo farmer I know is debating how much corn to plant this year. “There’s no snow in the mountains,” he says. Irrigation will be tight, and he’s reluctant to draw from a pond he might need for emergencies.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Speaker Javier Martinez both acknowledged the importance of southeast New Mexico by summarily dismissing Speaker Burrows’ idea.
