By Jim Baca - October 29 2011 03:01 PM - No Comments

This graph, a report card really, is from the New York Times today. Read it and weep. Think about corporate America and the super rich as you do.
By Jim Baca - October 27 2011 03:22 PM - No Comments

New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Charles Daniels took on the neo con special prosecutor who wants the judge to remove himself from the Las Cruces case involving alleged corruption on the District Court. I have always felt this case was a trumped ...
By Jim Baca - October 26 2011 03:12 PM - No Comments

Two former New Mexico republican legislators are bemoaning the overuse of our state's severance tax permanent fund during these tough economic times. That fund takes oil and gas severance taxes and puts them into a trust fund of sorts whose earni...
By Jim Baca - October 25 2011 07:40 PM - No Comments

Is it just me? Or is media taking some kind of macabre interest in the festering body of Qaddafi? On the way to the golf course this morning every newscast on every station was doing stories about how this character was finally buried. Over...
By Jim Baca - October 25 2011 06:41 PM - No Comments

Brilliant bosque and blue shifted Rockies. Priceless.Twin Warriors Golf Course-Santa AnaProbably the last really nice day for shorts this year. My time on a golf course is not wasted because it is always fun to be outside and active.
By Jim Baca - October 23 2011 10:21 PM - No Comments

There is a frightful loss of capacity occurring in the halls of non governmental environmental protection organizations. The baseless attacks on science, a poor economy, and dying support for government's strong protection policies has led ...
By Jim Baca - October 21 2011 04:05 PM - No Comments

A long time city employee called me yesterday to ask what I thought about the posting of all city employees salary information online. I said it was B.S. It is just another way of attacking the integrity of anyone who is a public serv...
By Jim Baca - October 20 2011 08:47 PM - No Comments

Posted late today because being outside this time of year is the best thing to do with my time. A beautiful game of golf above the colorful Bosque at Santa Ana. My friend Lee and I played with a couple of nice senior citizens guys. &n...
By Jim Baca - October 19 2011 07:29 PM - No Comments

There is no better time of year to wander around the Land of Enchantment than the month of October.
By Jim Baca - October 19 2011 02:14 PM - No Comments

Governor Martinez who at first hated the Spaceport championed by former Governor Bill Richardson has now embraced it. She smiled gleefully as she posed with Virgin Atlantic's Richard Branson at the dedication of the facility. I am pretty su...