Tipping Point NM Episode 476: Counties That Drive NM Economy, Medical Provider Shortage, NM Produces More Oil than Mexico and more

Which counties are New Mexico’s economic drivers? A new study from the Arrowhead Center at NMSU has the details.

School Choice managed to pass out of a committee last week: SB 113 by Sen. Ortiz y Pino would create a system of tax credits for school choice and it moved out of its first committee. Here are where things stand now that the session has been going on for 3 weeks as of Tuesday.

The ABQ Journal took a look at New Mexico’s medical provider shortage. 

New Mexico now produces more oil than the nation of Mexico. 

Legislative consultants are again pushing the narrative that New Mexico faces a “budgetary abyss” if something bad happens to the oil/gas industry. They may be correct, but NM faces plenty of problems already and has tended to waste the oil and gas money available to it already. Here is an op-ed written by the consultants.