Things are starting to heat up in the Albuquerque mayor’s race. Today, former Mayor Jim Baca has a posting telling candidate R.J. Berry that he needs to stop “picking out some segment of the population (immigrants) and blaming them for every and any problem anyone might have.”

“Mr. Berry, you need to stop this to regain the respect of a lot of people who were looking to you as an alternative,” Baca writes.

Meanwhile, Mario Burgos has a posting pointing out that the other mayoral candidates have Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez playing defense. Burgos calls the mayor “practically the poster child for politics as usual” and calls him out for attempting “to rewrite history” on a couple of hot topics in the race.

But enough about that. Some of us don’t live in Albuquerque. On to another interesting topic…

America’s wilderness act turns 45 this month, and Democracy for New Mexico has a post recognizing that. Which seems a good time for me to ask the question: What ever happened to the push to create wilderness areas in Doña Ana County, which currently has none?