We start off with an issue that has raised many an eyebrow:  The “America’s Greatest Education Governor” award accepted by Gov. Bill Richardson last week.  NMSU political scientist and blogger  Jose Z. Garcia picks apart how and why Richardson could recieve such an award. He writes:

Given the record of failure in New Mexico education, why would the NEA give the governor its award?

The answer, of course, lies in the politics of education.

And from the governor to the mayor, former ABQ Mayor Jim Baca questions Martin Chavez’s plans to hire 100 new police officers.  In addition to Marty’s coming under fire for taking a quantity-over-quality approach with previous APD hirings, Baca sums up what he thinks Chavez is up to:

It took him 7 years to hire the last 100, if they have even reached that number of 1100. Now, as an election year ploy he says more are needed.

From one watchdog to another, Democracy for New Mexico highlights the recent launch of ABQ Journal Watch. As local journalists and bloggers have been covering what seems to some to be a problematic political agenda within the Journal, two former Journal reporters plan to watch over the city’s largest newspaper. See why they think the self-proclaimed “paper of record” may not be holding true to its name.

Finally, Clearly New Mexico wraps up the critical blog world with local blogger Juan Sky’s commentary on the Waxman-Markey climate change bill.  Although the climate legislation has passed the House, see why the bill may not achieve what was previously hoped for in what this blogger calls “a breath of not so fresh air.” Despite his doubts and disappointment, could this be a small step in the right direction?