To the Point with Mick Rich
Mick Rich will provide articles once or twice a week. Some will address New Mexico issues and some will talk about national issues.
Albuquerque Mayor and Council Created the Homeless Crisis
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- Published: 15 July 2023 15 July 2023
It is time to throw the bums out, and I do not mean the homeless.
New Mexicans are compassionate people and were behind Mayor Berry’s “A Better Way” initiative to address homelessness in the City of Albuquerque. The idea was that if the COA provided the needs of the homeless, they would not be on the streets. Those elected officials did not understand what every business owner knows: your customers will increase when you provide what they need at a fair price. The Mayor and City Council Members did not end homelessness; they increased homelessness.
Secretary of Interior Haaland Seizes Control of Native Lands
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- Published: 26 June 2023 26 June 2023
Washington Democrats were surprised Native Americans were not rejoicing with them when Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland seized control of the Navajo Nation land surrounding the Chaco Culture National Park in northwest New Mexico. They were shocked when members of the Navajo Nation kept Secretary Haaland from celebrating her actions at Chaco.
What will Washington Democrats do if the Nation Navajo files suit against Secretary Haaland and her seizing control of land belonging to the Navajo Nation?
Utilities May Not Be Able to Provide Electricity to the All-Electric Homes
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- Published: 02 June 2023 02 June 2023
Homeowners may be unable to afford their electric bill after upgrading their homes to all-electric appliances.
California has mandated that all new homes built are to be all-electric, and starting in 2030, all new home appliances will be electric. I expect Washington will soon follow California’s lead of all-electric homes and appliances. In addition, Washington has mandated that fifty percent of new automobiles are to be electric.
Sacramento and Washington Democrats possess the power to enact these mandates but cannot, with a pen stroke, rebuild America’s electrical grid.
Families Dependent Upon Unreliable Electricity
Let’s Avoid National Blackouts
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- Published: 16 May 2023 16 May 2023
We’ve gone from Energy-Independent to Energy Instability
he Biden administration has mandated 80% renewable energy by 2030, 100% carbon-free electricity by 2035, and 50-60% of all vehicles produced are electric by 2030. California has mandated that new homes be all-electric, and I expect the Biden Administration will mandate the same. Without a study to determine if electrical demand will exceed the electrical supply, how long it will last, and the impact on the economy and the loss of life, is the US doomed to experience the same Texas-Styled Blackouts (which caused 195 billion in property damage and between 250 to 700 deaths) nationally?
My fifty-year construction career has included constructing and modifying everything from oil refineries to diesel, gasoline, and natural gas fueling stations, from hydro, gas-turbine to photovoltaic solar electrical plants (including a solar panel manufacturer facility), coal mines to uranium mines. In addition, we are constructing an electrical grid test facility and have been a Department of Energy Contractor for nearly thirty years. That fifty years of experience combined with my engineering degree leads me to believe many regions of the United States will experience energy instability, such as what occurred in the 2021 Texas Blackouts.
The Great 2021 Texas Blackouts, A Case Study of Electrical Grid Failure
A Day with The Men and Women Aboard the USS Carl Vinson
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- Published: 05 May 2023 05 May 2023
Insight from our Nation’s Best
The role and responsibility of our military as outlined in the preamble to the United States Constitution, ‘We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.’
Why Does Holy Week Seem So Un-Holy
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- Published: 07 April 2023 07 April 2023
This Holy Week reminds me why I became a Catholic.
My mother was raised a Lutheran, and my father a Catholic. My parents had long abandoned their faith when I was born, replacing God's grace with their unrighteous vengeance. I see that same unrighteous vengeance today in our government and the institution we depend upon.
Manhattan DA Bragg arrested Donald Trump during Holy Week. Did Bragg believe he was slaying MAGA Supporters' Messiah? But they support Trump, knowing he is just a man with imperfections like them. DA Bragg must not have read the First Commandment, "You shall have no other gods before me?"