I've heard rumblings that some delegates for Saturday's Democratic Party pre-primary convention at Pojoaque Pueblo's Buffalo Thunder Resort aren't happy about how some lieutenant governor candidates voted in the Legislature last week on reinstating a state tax on groceries.

Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday reappointed David Harris and named Catherine A. Allen (of the Santa Fe Group) and Doug Brown (of UNM's Anderson School of Management) to the State Investment Council (SIC), complying with a new law that re-organizes the besieged state agency.

Today was the final day for Governor Bill Richardson to sign bills that were passed in the final days of the 2010 regular session.

Gov. Bill Richardson has signed a bill that will require state officials to track the effectiveness of the state's economic development incentives.

New Mexico's unemployment rate rose from 5.9 percent to 8.5 percent between January 2009 and Jan. 2010, a 2.6 percent increase, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Colorado lawmakers recently decided to impose an online sales tax, a move that is generating a battle in Denver and highlighting the pressure states face to find new revenues.

Governor Bill Richardson announced in a press release today that he signed a bill that would allow concealed weapons in some restaurants.

New Mexico in January had the largest unemployment rate increase in the nation, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

Lt. Gov. Diane Denish has lost another public information officer — her eighth in less than eight years.

State Rep. John Heaton cited safety as one reason he sponsored a law to allow New Mexicans with concealed-carry permits to bring guns into restaurants that sell beer and wine.

Secretary of State Mary Herrera is alleging that former Elections Director A.J. Salazar resigned not because of ethical concerns about the way she runs the office but because he wanted time off from work that she didn't allow.

Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.