I was a guest this weekend on the Insight New Mexico radio show, hosted by Eric Griego and produced by Suzanne Prescott. Unfortunately, the Albuquerque broadcast doesn’t quite make it to our neck of the woods. You’re lucky, however, because they’re podcasting the show too! You can download a copy of the show here (guests, [...]

The news is not good for Replubicans: The U.S. attorney from New Mexico who was recently fired by the Bush administration said Wednesday that he believes he was forced out because he refused to rush an indictment in an ongoing probe of local Democrats a month before November’s Congressional elections. David Iglesias said two members [...]

There’s an interesting discussion of sorts underway in the comments section of John Fleck’s blog over the recent release of a study on the Colorado River. Tom Yulsman wrote the following: [N]othing in the NRC report sounded terribly new. We knew that droughts much worse than what we’ve experienced in the last 100 years have [...]

From the ABQNewsSeeker: The Gallup Independent is reporting that an inmate at the McKinley County Detention Center was gang-raped by four other inmates on the weekend of Feb. 3-4, and that the inmate reported the incident to jail authorities, triggering a State Police investigation. Peter Olson, state Department of Public Safety spokesman, confirmed that the [...]

The whole story of the seven fired U.S. attorneys is a tangled web of explanations and speculations. I’ve blogged a bit before on this issue, when it was suggested by an “administration official” that the firings happened because somebody somewhere wanted to “make things happen” in the affected areas. Via Think Progress, we found out [...]

Looks like our friends up north went and bought themselves a domain: I think that a community blog can be a great addition to our little corner of the lefty New Mexico blogosphere.  There are great bloggers out there, from the ladies at M-Pyre to Burque Babble to Democracy for New Mexico.  But I’m sure [...]

The short answer: probably, but not by much. Sen. Ben Altamirano (D-Silver City) introduced a minimum wage bill again this year (the Senate approved it on Friday), so the naysayers are out in force. We’re always treated with scare stories of businesses laying off workers and other myths: A small point of order, entry-level jobs [...]

From the Washington Post (hat tip to Headwaters News): But there is also evidence that broader political forces are at work. One administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in discussing personnel issues, said the spate of firings was the result of “pressure from people who make personnel decisions outside of Justice who [...]

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Is it just me, or has Julia Goldberg been tearing up the blog pages lately? I don’t know if it was her recent trip to the doctor or her vacation, but her fingers have been flying. She had three posts (1,2,3) today, three (1,2,3) yesterday, and was turning out steady content last week as well. [...]

Eclipse Aviation, which is based in Albuquerque, recently saw its Eclipse 500 ranked at the bottom of a comparison of private jets. The kicker: the bottom was the place to be. The Helium Report recently conducted a study on offsetting carbon emissions while flying on private planes (the way TerraPass will help you offest emissions [...]

Good news for New Mexico, and the rest of the Western states, because it looks like Denver has been chosen as the location for the 2008 Democratic National Convention: National Democrats announced today that they have picked Denver over New York for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Denver’s selection brings the high-profile political gathering to [...]