Only in New Mexico

Crime.  A big issue in Albuquerque.  The Mayor's candidates think so, as I do.  The guy who was found driving my stolen car down near t...

One of the things that bothers me about the Albuquerque Sick Leave Ordinance that is on the ballot is  when it comes to overall fairness in...

Of course we knew it would happen.  Tim Keller is the front runner in the Albuquerque's Mayor's  race so every other candidate is o...

Okay, four months off from blogging after 12 years of whining.  I have recharged my whining angst and will start blogging a few times a wee...

I have been cooling off from blogging for a few weeks.  I will continue to write pithy covfefes on Twitter.  Back in July some time.

Great Sent from my iPad On May 21, 2017, at 1:13 PM, Jim Baca < jbaca16@gmail.com > wrote: Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message...

Could it be bipartisanship is in revival? From my friend Ned. Relief! A few minutes ago, all Democratic senators and three GOP senator...

Tonights firing of Comey reminded me of this posts from 2010.  At least this firing got the attention it deserved. I got hooked on watchi...

The movie Seven Days in May is one of my all time favorites.  It has one of the best scripts I have ever read.  It is about an attempted m...

It is almost too much to bear.  Governor Martinez equating a sugar tax rejection in Santa Fe as an indication that all taxes are bad.  She ...

So what do you say to friends who live in Texas?  Given that the GOP led legislature in Texas just passed a law giving jail time to people ...

I have been on a vacation from blogging for two weeks.  But I return on news of a total breakdown in leadership in the City of Albuquerque....

Michele Grisham Lujan is amassing lots of money for her run for Governor.  She may well be the best candidate but  I am sensing some deja-v...

I must recommend a book I am reading called "New York 2140", by Kim Stanley Robinson.  This futuristic novel has great politica...

I hope someone will start putting forth serious essays on whether or not the trump administration and its minions are committing crimes aga...

We are victims of the so called War on Drugs.  While we were sleeping Friday night a burglar came in through our doggy door, stole Bobbi...

History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain d...

From Kim Stanley Robinson's new Sci Fi Book, "New York, 2140"  which is set after climate change. "But okay, you can’t...

The Wilderness Society, whose Council I served on for 23 years, is using New Mexico as an example of state land being sold off to oil, gas ...

Neighborhood list serves can be a destructive device for uh, being neighborly and free speech.   Some of our enlightened people around th...