Here’s a sampling:

• Ched Macquigg comments on why he thinks the Bernalillo County Commission “might ignore the will of the people” in deciding who will replace Berry. This blogger discusses how political party affiliation is causing debate over the filling of Berry’s legislative seat.

• Democracy for New Mexico posts a blog regarding Democrat — and AFSCME political director — Josh Anderson’s desire to fill this newly-vacant position. The Bernalillo County Commission may be voting on this issue as early as tonight.

On to other topics:

• Jim Baca discusses what he sees as irony regarding dynamics in the state Legislature – particularly that conservatives still seem to be calling the shots in the Senate.

• Marjorie of M-Pyre (and the Independent) blogs about a recent article from Forbes that says markets aren’t everything. Her read on the article: “Isn’t this another way of saying that capitalism has to be mitigated through the government or other social(ist) formations?”

• Last, Mario Burgos explains why “political promises never last” in the context of the current debate over health-care reform.

NMI’s Danielle Bauer is the brain behind this posting.

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Essentially, the Obama administration’s proposal leaves out New Mexico, Colorado and West Texas completely. The U.S. High Speed Rail Association’s plan would connect Albuquerque to Denver but leave out Southern New Mexico and West Texas.

The Reeper’s post makes a good point: Two hours from Albuquerque to Denver? Cool…

In other blog news, the Rio Grande Foundation’s Jim Scarantino is out with Part 3 in his investigative reporting on the state’s $9 million investment in Earthstone, and is up with a posting about it at New Mexico Liberty.

As the GOP is airing a TV ad attacking Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, former Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca warned Dems over the weekend of what may be in store for them on his blog.

Republican Jon Barela is using a “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” to try to gain support for his bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Martin Heinrich, according to Peter St. Cyr’s blog.

But it’s summer, so let’s also talk about some more summer-ish things. Check out this Duke City Fix blog by Barelas Babe about her recent trip to Tingley Beach. It might give you enough reason to get away from this computer and get out into the fresh air of New Mexico.

Oh yeah, and the new Harry Potter movie opens at midnight. m-pyre’s Mikaela has the goods on that.

NMI’s Danielle Bauer contributed to this report.

Also on the economic front, NMI’s Marjorie Childress writes on her own blog, m-pyre, about “corporate blackmail.” She decries government acting “as an arm of big corporations” and uses the situation with SunCal and the Legislature as an example.

SunCal doesn’t need government funding to build its Albuquerque development, Childress writes, so the plan is “corporate blackmail, pure and simple — Sun Cal says they’ll simply build sprawling housing tracts otherwise, with big box stores. And as ever, our very weak government is going to fall for it.”

Meanwhile, New Mexico State University government professor Jose Z. Garcia has a posting on his blog about Ciudad Juarez’s essentially being under martial law.

And SFReeper.com has the goods on the possibility that Thornburg Mortgage is about to file for bankruptcy.

Such times.