Baca, by the way, is currently mayor of Albuquerque and fixing to run for a second term. New Mexico is a relatively poor state, although it shows great promise economically. Let's set goals to be the best in the areas of education, crime, economic development, government efficiency. I suggest that we would. That's my vision.
Crime is down, so that's an improvement.
We don't yet have instantaneous transactions in which the funds are transferred the instant a card is put into a machine. It's radically changing the method we will use to exchange value. We've gone from rocks to stones to precious stones to coins to paper currency to checks to plastic cards to electronic impulses. We did master bank card technology and McCorkle is now president of Technology Ventures Corp., a sort of midwife to startup tech companies. The article quoting McCorkle also dealt with a number of the banks doing business in Albuquerque and environs.