At the Roundhouse: Dancing lawmakers and other Valentine’s Day news

We still offer so much information in the Journal every day even I sometimes have trouble keeping track.

Coverage of “One Billion Rising” events on Valentine’s Day is an example

(By the way, included in that coverage is a Dean Hanson photo of  Rep. Brian Egolf and Sen. Howie Morales dancing outside the Capitol that you might not want to miss. See possibly more appealing dancing here).

“One Billion Rising” is a global campaign to end violence against women, and there were events Thursday in Albuquerque and Santa Fe to make people aware.

The newspaper’s coverage of “One Billion Rising” events actually started in the Sunday Journal in the paper’s Living section. A long story called “Hear Them Roar,” accompanied by photographs, explained the campaign and advanced what would happen in New Mexico on Valentine’s Day.

On the cover of Friday morning’s Journal North edition in Santa Fe, Journal writer and editor Jackie Jadrnak reported on the “One Billion Rising” event at the Capitol.

he Journal North coverage, on the section’s front page, is accompanied by a striking photograph by staff photographer Eddie Moore of nearly 1,000 people demonstrating in support of “One Billion Rising” outside the Roundhouse on Thursday.

The Journal also covered “One Billion Rising” events in Albuquerque.

In Friday’s Journal, on the Metro & NM section cover, staff photographer Adolphe Pierre-Louis has a photo of the event on Civic Plaza. And the caption directs you to a photo slide show and a video on the Journal’s online website, ABQjournal.com. (And the video seems to have better dancing than the lawmaker moves outside the Capitol).

The “One Billion Rising” photo slide show covers the events in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

Of course, on page A6 of Friday’s Journal, Dan Boyd, Deborah Baker, James Monteleone and Astrid Galvan provided five stories from our daily coverage of the Legislature inside the Roundhouse.

This morning’s daily Legislature stories included reports on the state’s troubled public employee pension plans, its popular but financially strained lottery scholarships, a proposed new system of appointing university regents and the move to stop giving New Mexico driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

Boyd also had a story this morning on two lawmakers and a top aide to the lieutenant governor flying to Roswell on state-owned plane for a rally and a hearing on the lesser prairie chicken.

Stay tuned to our daily legislative online coverage and the Tuesday-through-Saturday Legislature page in the A section of Journal print editions.

Valentine’s Day was only the halfway point of the 60-day session.