At the Roundhouse
A legislature blog by John Robertson
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At the Roundhouse: The End Is Near – Maybe
The House and Senate are rolling toward adjournment of the Legislature at noon today. Check our Legislature 2012 blog for the latest developments. You can’t be sure of all that... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: Ice Storm Coming
New Mexico lawmakers, with less than 48 hours left in their 30-day session, awoke Wednesday to snow on the ground and ice on the Capitol’s Fourth Floor. The snow was... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: Get Your Late Night Legislature News Here
Want to know what the New Mexico Senate did late last night? Go to the Legislature 2012 blog.
At the Roundhouse: Vintage Senate
The New Mexico Senate quit work at about 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, probably so all those guys in bolo ties and jeans could hurry back to their hotel rooms and... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: Whitewater Rafting
Sleep deprivation has me thinking of the Legislature in whitewater rafting terms. Into the rapids we go. Seven bumpy days ahead. Lash down your gear. Paddle like crazy and keep... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: Lawmakers Do Good
How’s that for a headline? I can get away with it because there’s no partisan debate about this deed of the seldom sung solons: They’ll take to the court once... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: APS Revisited
Update: The Journal’s Deborah Baker will have a full report on this APS redistricting development in Saturday morning’s Journal and online at ABQjournal.com Hold on there, APS. There might be... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: A Prison Riot Tour
It’s nothing to be proud of — that gray hulk of the old state penitentiary south of Santa Fe, where 33 inmates were murdered and hundreds of other violent offenses... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: Rail Runner and Pensions
Here’s a little more background on today’s Journal stories on the troubles of the Rail Runner Express and state pension funds. My grand plan for another column subject crashed and... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: Video release, Capitol Shindig and Joe Skeen
The Legislature this morning is releasing the Capitol security video of the Sheryl Williams Stapleton-Nora Espinoza incident. We will get it online on at the Journal’s website at ABQjournal.com as... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: In the News
Some New Mexico lawmakers are talking about increased security at the Capitol after Occupy protesters disrupted two events involving legislators in two weeks. There’s certainly no agreement yet that it’s... Read more »
At the Roundhouse: Governor Calling
Gov. Susana Martinez’s phone-call campaigns and New Mexico legislators’ long weekend — this is follow-up day. Ringing off the hook: Earlier this week, I defended the Republican governor’s effort at... Read more »
