Remember the fight between Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez and the city council over a reflecting pool the mayor wanted to build at Balloon Fiesta Park? Well, now it’s just a big hole in the ground and all kinds of suggestions are floating around about what to do with it, according to Dan McKay of the Albuquerque Journal.

The Los Alamos Monitor has an interesting article about the “startling” amount of racist rage being vented on Web sites in the wake of the presidential election. Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman said in a news release that “While it’s clear that race didn’t matter to the vast majority of the American people in this election, race matters to racists.” The article goes on to describe the work of the ADL in New Mexico, particularly Regional Director Susan Seligman’s efforts to counter hate groups.

This is hardly news at this point, but it looks like Gov. Richardson is going to be the next head of the U.S. Commerce Department. This means he’d be the Obama administration’s point person on international trade. You know, things like Nafta.