D. Dowd Muska is the vice president of research at the Southwest Public Policy Institute. Dowd brings nearly 30 years of research and writing experience to the Institute. A veteran of several think tanks, he is an expert on government at the municipal, county, state, and federal levels.
Raised on an apple orchard in the Connecticut River Valley, Dowd is a researcher, writer, editor, and commentator. His focus is the nexus of fiscal policy, economic development, and technology.
Dowd is the author of numerous policy studies, and his writing has appeared in newspapers throughout the nation, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Detroit News, the Orlando Sentinel, the Cape Cod Times, the Santa Fe New Mexican, the Hartford Courant, the Waco Tribune-Herald, the Albuquerque Journal, the New Haven Register, and The Oklahoman. A graduate of The George Washington University, he lives in the Albuquerque metro area, but has started (very) early planning for a relocation to the Sierra Blanca in Lincoln County, New Mexico. He recently launched the Substack platform No Dowd About It.
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The Latest from Dowd
- What’s Up in Colorado?
Employment growth slows to nearly nothing in the Centennial State. - ‘Wonderment and Bemusement’
SPPI’s vice president of research talks about the policy and culture of the Silver State. - In Denver, They Lobbied, and You Paid
Don’t say we didn’t warn you. - Yeah, Um, About Those ‘Green’ Jobs…
A gusher of opportunity in the Permian Basin, as Kern County faces a frightening future. - No Fertilizer, No Farms
Eco-alarmists stage another assault on the American Southwest’s mineral bonanza.