If, like me, you were unable to attend the only debate in the 2nd Congressional District race, Heath Haussaman’s got you covered: With the exception of the heckling, the forum was predictable. This isn’t a race with two moderates – Pearce is a conservative Republican and Kissling is a liberal Democrat. Pearce defended his record [...]

Go read two posts over at New MexiKen concerning New Mexico’s entrance as a territory, and, later, a state: Taylor died July 9 [1850]. Fillmore became president and defused the situation by laying aside New Mexico’s application for statehood. (If Taylor hadn’t gotten gastroenteritis New Mexico could have become a state 62 years sooner!) The [...]

One of my favorite New Mexico blogs, Duke City Fix, has been on the blink for the last several days. At least they’re cool about it: Duke City Fix — Old School Edition Albuquerque’s finest plain text single-page website Be sure to send em some support while they work to get back online.

Kathy Flake has an interesting take on the terror plot, since she’s actually living in England. A former New Mexican, I love to check her blog, What Do I Know, to get a perspective on what’s going on across the pond. Turns out I’m not the only one turning to her lately: This morning I [...]

I’m off to a slow start this morning, and should have something up in the next hour or so. In the meantime, check out CrucesNews.com. This online newspaper of sorts was just launched by former reporter/current blogger Heath Haussaman. Haussaman gave up his post at the Las Cruces Sun-News to blog full time, and he [...]

Some things have popped up on the Internets recently that caught my attention, especially in how they relate to New Mexico. Each post is valid in its own right, and should be read on its merits, but keep reading to see why I’m bringing them up. First off this is shot from Ezra concerning the [...]

This is an addition to the blogroll that’s late in coming, but I hope all you locals visit Julia Goldberg’s blog. I can’t believe I haven’t included her before — she’s a thoughtful journalist who edits the alt weekly Santa Fe Reporter (see their candidate picks here). We had a little power outage here in [...]

The buzz is starting to drown out everything else with the 2006 primary election tomorrow. Still, here’s your Monday morning blog roundup preceding the election. First off, we have some picks from Democracy for New Mexico. As a reporter, I’m not taking a stand on any of these races, and I voted Friday, so no [...]

Yesterday, LFSC was linked on the front page of the Council on Foreign Relations web site. They have a list of “Worldly Weblogs,” which are updated daily. For this, was very cool, especially because of the company I was with: Laura Rosen (whom I link to frequently); Brian Ross and Richard Esposito, the reporters who [...]

Well, since he’s no longer going to be working for the Las Cruces Sun-News, I feel I can freely link to Heath Haussamen’s blog now. A reporter for the Sun-News political junkie/freelance journalist, Heath brings a welcome presepctive of the Southern New Mexico scene to the ‘Net. You’ll find he’s insightful and thorough, and his [...]

If, like me, you had trouble accessing Joe Monahan’s site this morning, check his backup.

I’ve tossed some new linkage over the on the New Mexico blogroll: DemFemme. Maggie Toulouse is our writer, a career “political activist” who blogs on the progressive side of things in New Mexico. Maggie appears to be taking a break this weekend, but she has some excellent coverage of last weekend’s Democratic Party convention: Why [...]