During his first term, President Barack Obama declared October 2009 to be "National Information Literacy Awareness Month," emphasizing that, for students, learning to navigate the online world is as important a skill as reading, writing and arithmetic. It was a move that echoed his predecessor's strong support of...

An election-reform bill working its way through the Arizona legislature would set next-to-impossible hurdles for Green candidates hoping to win their party's presidential nomination.

Currently, all Arizona law requires from candidates (of any party) to get on the primary ballot is a notarized form -- no signatures, no...

San Diego CityBeat is reporting that an ACORN worker in National City, Calif. has filed a federal lawsuit against conservatives activists James O'Keefe and Hanna Giles over violations of California's privacy code.

Juan Carlos Vera was one of many ACORN employees who were secretly video taped by...

Congressman Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee, has been garnering a lot of attention lately for his bombastic attacks on the Obama administration. And for his hair style.

But for all Issa's scrutiny of the White House, maybe it's time for the public...

Recently, for San Diego CityBeat, I interviewed Republican Nick Popaditch, a retired Marine and the Tea Party favorite to replace Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA) in Congress.

We discussed everything from the health-care vote to waterboarding and...

Roger Hedgecock is a syndicated, conservative radio personality and former San Diego mayor. He recently hosted a show from the tea party rally in Searchlight, Nevada and has filled-in on Rush Limbaugh's show.

Today, he went a little over the edge, first claiming that the West Virginia mining disaster...

San Diego-based geophysicist and climate-change-theory opponent J. Marvin Herndon has released a report that he says disproves conventional theories on how the planet's continents formed.

Previously, Herndon called global warming the "greatest science fraud ever." Now he's calling "Pangaea" and plate-tectonics theory a giant "geo-blunder."

In a study...

The Yahoo! Finance user who was convicted of making a death threat in 2008 against then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, has filed an appeal that claims his postings on a message board did not constitute a "true threat."

San Diego CityBeat is reporting that Walter Bagdasarian of La Mesa,...

UPDATE: San Diego CityBeat has more on the story here.

Sure, progressives are complaining that Pres. Barack Obama isn't making good on his campaign promises. But now, one pot provider facing criminal charges in San Diego has gone so far as to file a motion in court...

Count me among the unimaginative, the uninspired, the unenthused, the Halloween-hating.

This year, as most previous, I'd left my costume (or at least the conceptualization of it) until the day before. For a moment, I thought I could get away with wearing my threadbare hoodie under my stained, fraying, armpit-ripped...

October 7, 2009 Update: ABQ Mayor Marty Chavez lost the election to Richard Berry.

This is, hands down, the silliest 11th hour appeal I've ever read from a candidate -- Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez, who is in a tight race against challengers Richard Berry and Richard Romero. You may need...

New Mexico repealed the death penalty during the 2009 Legislative session, but since the lawmaking body is prohibited from enacting retroactive laws the two men currently on death row are still eligible for execution. Gov. Bill Richardson has said he would not commute the sentences of the remaining two individuals...

More than two weeks ago, I filed a public records request with Gov. Bill Richardson's office with the purpose of investigating the extent to which Richardson has been involved in negotiations with North Korea regarding journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. The video journalists are imprisoned in North Korea and...

As speculation intensifies that Pres. Barack Obama will dispatch New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to North Korea to negotiate the release of imprisoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the coordinator of...

Who knew I could ever be jealous of a dead man?

OK, that's not fair. John "Ash" Amador was the last man...

In which I have way too much fun calling up a guy mentioned briefly on Countdown...

Monday, March 10: I am in the kitchen nuking Indian dinner in a box when my attention catches on five words from whatever Keith Olbermann is reading on TV in the other room.

"...gibbble...guubbble!.....guhguuuuble!......

On Jan. 17, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that the Obama family has narrowed down the potential family dog breeds to the Labradoodle and the Portuguese Water Dog.

It should be noted, however, that there is an already solid...

Yes, in a press conference on the state budget this afternoon, Gov. Bill Richardson confirmed to a reporter (Okay, it was the New Mex's Steve Terrell) that the stubble does...

Today, Gov. Bill Richardson addressed reporters about *his* decision to back out the Commerce Secretaryship, amid an investigation into whether he was involved in illegal "pay to play" politics.

Like...

Democratic Party of New Mexico Chairman Brian Colon is on record telling SFR that he treats the party fairly...that is until I grilled him on the election cycle, the primary caucus comedy-of-errors, his political ambitions and whether he taunted his Republican counterpart with text messages after New Mexico's Congressional delegation...