Last week, the Rio Grande Foundation hosted a candidate forum between District 3 (the northern district) Congressional candidates Tom Mullins and Adam Kokesh. Incumbent Ben Ray Lujan was invited, but did not attend.

On Wednesday, December 9, the Rio Grande Foundation hosted a candidate forum to which each of the five currently-declared candidates was invited. Only two, Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones and Doug Turner participated while the Weh campaign was represented in the opening session by Whitney Cheshire. Video of the forum is below:

On December 2nd, the Rio Grande Foundation hosted a unique event called "Liberty in Concert" with Jamie Story who is president of the Grassroot Institute in Hawaii and a former Miss Texas. The event included a brief classical concert and talk about her work for our sister think tank the Texas Public Policy Foundation and in the liberty movement.

New Mexico Watchdog takes you inside the castle Manny Aragon has been building for the past 21 years in Albuquerque's South Valley. See the monument being built by the man who was once the most powerful politician in New Mexico in a video report by New Mexico Watchdog's Steve McAllister.

I presented to the New Mexico Turnaround Conference this past weekend on "The State of the State of New Mexico." The slides of my presentation are available here.

In case you missed it or were not able to attend, syndicated columnist    Jonah Goldberg spoke at the New Mexico Turnaround conference which was held on Friday and Saturday the 18th and 19th of September. The video appears in two parts below:

Albuquerque voters are voting now to decide whether or not to extend a 1/4 cent transportation tax. RGF President Paul Gessing was interviewed for a segment on Channel 13's news broadcast on the fact that the tax has no expiration date and that voters would benefit from seeing $35 million in their pockets rather than being used by local government. An article and video of the story are available here.

Paul Gessing of the Rio Grande Foundation was a panelist at Rep. Heinrich's town hall meeting this past Saturday, August 22nd. Video of the event is now available: