The Legislature will have a <a href= "https://errorsofenchantment.com/legislature-blessed-with-3-6-billion-in-new-money-in-upcoming-session/">positively mind-blowing $3.6 billion budget surplus.</a> What is that by comparison? The <a href= "https://errorsofenchantment.com/public-education-department-outlines-agenda-spending-increase-for-legislative-session/">PED has also made its budgetary request</a> which, while not a huge increase, highlights the ineffectiveness of boosting spending with no reforms. After producing terrible results in the latest NAEP test the PED and Legislature <a href= "https://errorsofenchantment.com/new-mexico-dumbing-down-education-standards/">are considering "dumbing down"</a> education standards:  Among the bills to be considered in the Legislature this year is "net zero." <a href= "https://errorsofenchantment.com/what-net-zero-means/">Energy expert Alex Epstein has thoughts.</a>  <a href= "https://errorsofenchantment.com/pulling-back-on-abqs-free-buses-even-slightly-not-easy-despite-rising-costs-declining-ridership/"> Pulling back on ABQ's "free" buses won't be easy. </a> As Fauci retires and Twitter owner Elon Musk stokes debate over <a href= "https://www.newsweek.com/how-fauci-fooled-america-opinion-1643839">Fauci's record it is worth noting what he got wrong</a> during his "leadership" of US health policy in the COVID pandemic.

463 Mackenzie Bishop - Housing Issues in New Mexico

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461 New Mexico's Medical Provider Shortage - Sandra Whisler, MD and Howard Gogel, MD

462 What to do with New Mexico's $3.6 Billion Budget Surplus, Education Funding Request, Will Education Standards be Lowered?, Net Zero in New Mexico?, Changes for Free Bus Rides in ABQ, Dr. Fauci Retires