Peter St. Cyr

On the third day of the 2010 legislative session, the House and Senate each met briefly, but the real action was in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where whistleblower Frank Foy told state lawmakers the Richardson administration was stonewalling his request for more information on alleged corruption in state investment funds. Click the headline to read a transcript.

Lt. Governor Diane Denish said in an interview to be televised on Friday evening that it’s a “patently false lie” that her office used federal taxpayer dollars for campaign Christmas cards.
The interview was conducted by Peter St. Cyr for KNME’s New Mexico in Focus, and you can see the clip in question on the show’s [...]

At a press conference outside the Roundhouse on Tuesday, the House Republicans released 48 ideas to help close the budget gap.

As NMI has reported, a city contractor, John Bode, has alleged in a deposition that he and his firm were victims of retaliation for not providing free or reduce air flights to Mayor Martin Chavez. Now one of Chavez’s opponents, Richard Romero, has released a 15-minute video compilation of highlights taken from surveillance tapes at Double [...]

New Mexico Attorney General Gary King is saying his office is free of conflict of interests that would weaken its prosecution of former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron and three other defendants.
The issue of potential conflicts came out last week when the defense attorney for one of those indicted, Elizabeth Kupfer, confirmed to NMI’s Heath [...]

Albuquerque City Councilor Sally Mayer shocked political observers yesterday when she announced she was dropping out of her bid for reelection to her District 7 council seat.
KKOB 770 news reporter Peter St. Cyr first broke the news, blogging that Mayer, a Republican, informed the city clerk around 4pm, and that she told St. Cyr she [...]

At the top of the list of top blogs today is Peter St. Cyr’s posting about a report released by former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici and the Bipartisan Policy Center called “Drowning in Red Ink.” Get St. Cyr’s take on the group’s move to fix “the nation’s daunting federal deficit and debt crisis.”

Last week Gov. Bill Ricardson and U.S. Sen. Tom Udall announced that they’re applying for funds to study the feasibility of creating a high-speed rail line from El Paso to Denver, through Albuquerque. SFReeper.com has an interesting post about two other high-speed rail plans for America.

With questions about where a certain South Carolina governor had been for days leading to quite a revelation last week, Albuquerque radio reporter Peter St. Cyr went on the hunt for where our own Gov. Bill Richardson has been.
The short answer: He’s “not hiking naked,” St. Cyr wrote on his blog. But he was out [...]

If you read one blog today, read this one. Barelas Babe of Duke City Fix writes on a very New Mexican topic: bilingualism. She talks about language hybrids, like Spanglish and others; the language of different generations; and the special flair bilingualism gives New Mexico.

First for the breaking news: Gov. Bill Richardson has named a new Bernalillo County Commissioner. It’s Maggie Hart Stebbins, and Democracy for New Mexico has the info.
More big news: Peter St. Cyr has the goods on the New Mexico Supreme Court’s consideration later today of the constitutionality of the death penalty.

Between swine flu and the Mexican Army’s battle with the cartels, there’s a lot going on in the nation south of the border. Jose Garcia has it all covered in several postings on his blog. It’s a good resource for keeping up with what’s going on there.

We’re headed all over the place in this roundup of what’s going on the blogosphere, but let’s start with Earth Day (which, by the way, is tomorrow). SFReeper.com gives the facts on the day and activities planned in Santa Fe. And two state lawmakers author a guest column published today on Democracy for New Mexico about Earth Day and the “new reality in New Mexico.”

Time to wrangle up the end-of-the week blogs and put them out in today’s edition of the NMI blog roundup.
Democracy for New Mexico takes an extensive look at the reason why ethics legislation doesn’t make it past the Legislature. DFNM blames culprits like Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez and House Majority Leader Ken Martinez for [...]

The microblogging service Twitter has been growing in stature as a journalism tool around New Mexico, as broadcast reporters, print journalists and of course bloggers have begun covering the state tweet by tweet.