
By Kenneth W. Costello | Oct 8, 2025
Mayor Alan Webber and various groups favor increasing Santa Fe’s minimum wage with the rationale that it will make housing more affordable to low-income residence (“Council hears many pleas of support for new wage law,”...

By Kenneth W. Costello | May 13, 2025
Political efforts to curtail gas supply and demand have met with limited success.

By Kenneth W. Costello | Jul 1, 2024
Like me, many residents of Santa Fe consider the city a good place to live. Reasons include the weather, culture, and outdoor activities. Sadly, Santa Fe’s quality of life is not enhanced by its city government.

By Kenneth W. Costello | Aug 22, 2023
Climate change presents a daunting challenge for economists, political scientists, and policymakers.

By Kenneth W. Costello | Jan 24, 2022
Real-world experiences have shown that costs of switching to public power are high and the benefits are specious, highly uncertain, not well-defined and hard to quantify.